Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

Name: Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear
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ISBN: 9781781681237

ISBN-10: 1781681236

ISBN-13: 9781781681237

Edition: 2014

Authors: John Kuo Wei Tchen, Dylan Yeats

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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 details

Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 1/27/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.20" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English