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Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

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Availability:In StockContributor:John Kuo Wei Tchen, Dylan YeatsPublish date:2014-02-11Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781781681237ISBN-10:1781681236UPC:9781781681237Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Discrimination, Race & Ethnic RelationsBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.9026Product ID:SC5SPTE5AZ
"The "yellow peril" is one of the most long-standing and pervasive racist ideas in Western culture--indeed, this book traces its history to the Enlightenment era. Yet while Fu Manchu evokes a fading historical memory, yellow peril ideology persists, animating, for example, campaign commercials from the 2012 presidential election. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, pop culture artifacts and political polemic. Written by two leading scholars and replete with paintings, photographs and images drawn from dime novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, polemical and pseudo-scholarly literature, and other pop culture ephemera, this book is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation"--
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781781681237ISBN-10:1781681236UPC:9781781681237Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Discrimination, Race & Ethnic RelationsBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.9026Product ID:SC5SPTE5AZ
John Kuo-Wei Tchen is a professor at New York University, the author of New York Before Chinatown, and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America.

Dylan Yeats is a doctoral candidate at New York University.
Publisher: Verso

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