LEADER 05692nam 2201249Ia 450 001 9910459852503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-01212-X 010 $a9786613012128 010 $a1-4008-3860-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400838608 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079644 035 $a(EBL)662356 035 $a(OCoLC)705539230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000467185 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12147051 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467185 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10489519 035 $a(PQKB)10859552 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC662356 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000514968 035 $a(OCoLC)713342093 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36684 035 $a(DE-B1597)446867 035 $a(OCoLC)979629433 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400838608 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL662356 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10451088 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL301212 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079644 100 $a20101104d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBecoming yellow$b[electronic resource] $ea short history of racial thinking /$fMichael Keevak 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14031-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: No Longer White -- $tChapter 1. Before They Were Yellow -- $tChapter 2. Taxonomies of Yellow -- $tChapter 3. Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of "Mongolian" Skin Color -- $tChapter 4. East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine -- $tChapter 5. Yellow Peril -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aEast Asians$xRace identity 606 $aNational characteristics, East Asian 606 $aRace awareness$zWestern countries$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRace awareness$zWestern countries$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRacism$zWestern countires$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRacism$zWestern countires$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aCarl Linnaeus. 610 $aChina. 610 $aChinese. 610 $aDown syndrome. 610 $aEast Asian bodies. 610 $aEast Asians. 610 $aFar East. 610 $aFranois Bernier. 610 $aJapan. 610 $aJapanese. 610 $aJohann Friedrich Blumenbach. 610 $aMongolian bodies. 610 $aMongolian eye. 610 $aMongolian race. 610 $aMongolian spot. 610 $aMongolian. 610 $aMongolianness. 610 $aMongolism. 610 $aSino-Japanese War. 610 $aTartar. 610 $aTom Pires. 610 $aWilhelm II. 610 $aanatomical quantification. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $acolor top. 610 $ahomo sapiens. 610 $ahuman taxonomies. 610 $amedicine. 610 $amerchants. 610 $amissionaries. 610 $arace. 610 $aracial thinking. 610 $aracism. 610 $askin color. 610 $atravel narrators. 610 $awhiteness. 610 $ayellow peril. 610 $ayellow race. 610 $ayellow. 610 $ayellowness. 615 0$aEast Asians$xRace identity. 615 0$aNational characteristics, East Asian. 615 0$aRace awareness$xHistory 615 0$aRace awareness$xHistory 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 676 $a305.8009182/109033 700 $aKeevak$b Michael$f1962-$0994040 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459852503321 996 $aBecoming yellow$92463714 997 $aUNINA