Becoming Yellow : A Short History of Racial Thinking /

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In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keevak, Michael, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Asiater > attityder till.
Asiater > etnicitet.
Rasism > historia.
Europäer
Asiaten
Rassismus
Ethnische Identität
Racism.
Race awareness.
National characteristics, East Asian.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Est-Asiatiques.
Est-Asiatiques > Identite ethnique.
Conscience de race > Occident > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Conscience de race > Occident > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Racisme > Occident > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Racisme > Occident > Histoire > 18e siecle.
East Asians > Race identity.
Race awareness > Western countries > History > 19th century.
Race awareness > Western countries > History > 18th century.
Racism > Western countries > History > 19th century.
Racism > Western countries > History > 18th century.
Western countries.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did Asians become "yellow" in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, Becoming Yellow explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9781400838608

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