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Becoming yellow

Keevak, Michael

2011

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 18th century / 19th century / 20th century / Adjective / Americans / Anatomy / Ancient Egypt / Benjamin A. Elman / Bernstein / Biological anthropology / Black hair / Black people / Buddhism / Carl Linnaeus / Caucasian race / China / Chinese people / Chinoiserie / Christianity / Civilization / Color term / Complexion / Couleur / Dark skin / Difference / Disease / Down syndrome / East Asia / East Asians / East Asians -- Race identity / Egyptians / Engelbert Kaempfer / Epicanthic fold / Ethnic groups / Ethnic Studies / Eugenics / Europe / Fellow / Germans / Gyan Prakash / Haun Saussy / HBTB / Heinrich von Staden (author) / Heredity / HISTORY / HISTORY / Social History / History of Science & Technology / Human skin color / Illustration / Indigenous peoples / Interethnic relations / Isidore of Seville / James Cowles Prichard / Japan / Jaundice / JFC / JFSL / Johann Friedrich Blumenbach / Jonathan Israel / Literature / Matteo Ricci / Mongolian spot / Mongoloid / Moors / Narrative / National characteristics, East Asian / Nicola Di Cosmo / PDX / Persian people / Physician / Physiognomy / Pigment / Princeton University / Princeton University Press / Race (human categorization) / Race awareness / Race awareness -- Western countries -- History -- 18th century / Race awareness -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century / Race identity / Race relations / Racism / Racism -- Western countires -- History -- 18th century / Racism -- Western countires -- History -- 19th century / Robert Markley / Science / SCIENCE / History / Scientific racism / Seti I / Shelby Cullom Davis / Social History / Social perception / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General / Sociology / Suggestion / Superiority (short story) / Systema Naturae / Tartary / Tatars / U.S.A / Western countires / Western countries / Western world / White people / Whiteness / Yellow Emperor / Yellow Peril
• ISBN: 0691140316, 9780691140315, 9781400838608, 1400838606