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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459852503321

Autore

Keevak Michael <1962->

Titolo

Becoming yellow [[electronic resource] ] : a short history of racial thinking / / Michael Keevak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-01212-X

9786613012128

1-4008-3860-6

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

305.8009182/109033

Soggetti

East Asians - Race identity

National characteristics, East Asian

Race awareness - Western countries - History - 18th century

Race awareness - Western countries - History - 19th century

Racism - Western countires - History - 18th century

Racism - Western countires - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: No Longer White -- Chapter 1. Before They Were Yellow -- Chapter 2. Taxonomies of Yellow -- Chapter 3. Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of "Mongolian" Skin Color -- Chapter 4. East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine -- Chapter 5. Yellow Peril -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. From the walls of an ancient Egyptian tomb, which depicted people of varying skin tones including yellow, to the phrase "yellow peril" at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe and America, Michael Keevak follows the development of perceptions about race and human difference. He indicates that the conceptual relationship between East Asians and yellow skin did not begin in Chinese culture or Western readings of East Asian cultural symbols, but in anthropological and medical records that described variations in skin color. Eighteenth-century taxonomers such as Carl Linnaeus, as well as Victorian scientists and early anthropologists, assigned colors to all racial groups, and once East Asians were lumped with members of the Mongolian race, they began to be considered yellow. Demonstrating how a racial distinction took root in Europe and traveled internationally, Becoming Yellow weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131487603321

Autore

Barreneche Osvaldo (Comp.)

Titolo

Leyes, justicias e instituciones de seguridad en la provincia de Buenos Aires (siglos XIX a XXI) / / Osvaldo Barreneche, Ángela Oyhandy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, 2015

Argentina : , : Universidad Nacional de la Plata, , 2014

ISBN

9789503411155

9789503409367

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Estudios / Investigaciones

Soggetti

Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together works on the past and present of the laws, justices and security institutions of the province of Buenos Aires. This theme raises a complexity that has only been partially analysed, and that we want to deepen here by adding contributions from different disciplines and perspectives. The most recent contributions of the Social Sciences, which have dealt with the overexposed issue of security and the institutions that hold the monopoly of state coercion, are used for this, together with the contributions of the so-called social and cultural history of justice. and the security institutions of Latin America. The authors that make up this compilation seek to advance in the knowledge of normative frameworks and social practices in the Buenos Aires territory,