Becoming Yellow A Short History of Racial Thinking

Name: Becoming Yellow A Short History of Racial Thinking
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ISBN: 9780691140315

ISBN-10: 0691140316

ISBN-13: 9780691140315

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Keevak

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List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/21/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 0.10" wide x 0.10" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Michael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. His books include "Sexual Shakespeare", "The Pretended Asian", and "The Story of a Stele".



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Acknowledgments


Introduction: No Longer White: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of Yellowness



Before They Were Yellow: East Asians in Early Travel and Missionary Reports



Taxonomies of Yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the Making of a ï¿½Mongolianï¿½ Race in the Eighteenth Century



Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of ï¿½Mongolianï¿½ Skin Color



East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Mongolian Eye, the Mongolian Spot, and ï¿½Mongolismï¿½



Yellow Peril: The Threat of a ï¿½Mongolianï¿½ Far East, 1895-1920


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