Yellow peril!: an archive of anti-Asian fear /

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 Is Both A Unique And Fascinating Archive And A Modern Analysis Of This Crucial Historical Formation-- Decolonizing Scholarship -- Westernizing Europe -- Geo-racial Mapping -- Anglo America's Great Game -- The Enemy Within -- The Coming War -- Epilogue: Uncle Sam And The Headless Chinaman. Edited And Introduced By John Kuo Wei Tchen And Dylan Yeats. Includes Bibliographical References. Introduction : Yellow Peril incarnate pt. I. The imagined West 1. Decolonizing scholarship Mapping boundaries of difference and shared spaces, a visual essay (2013) / John Kuo Wei Tchen Mapping : local gone global (2007) / John Kuo Wei Tchen The theft of history (2006) / Jack Goody Hemispheres of the globe (1884) Where is the West? Where is the East? / Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen Positional superiority of Western knowledge (2012) / Linda Tuhiwai Smith Occidentalism and modernity (1996) / Fernando Coronil 2. Westernizing Europe St. George and the dragon (1876) Eurasia Eurasia : the horse and the wheel (2009) / David W. Anthony Classical routes Homer's Phoenicians (1995) / Irene J. Winter Isocrates' Europe vs. Asia rhetoric (2004) / Benjamin Isaac Greeks and multiple Barbarians (2005) / Adam Kuper Rise of Western fundamentalism Letter to Pope Urban II (1094/1095) / Alexios I. Komnenos That detestable race of Satan (1240) / Matthew Paris The story of god and Magog (1998) / Scott D. Westrem Placing the Jews in late Medieval English literature (2002) / Suzanne Conklin Akbari Christians on Saracens (2003) / John V. Tolan Latin Christendom's "doctrine of discovery" : papal bulls, 145, 1455, 1493 (2013) / John Kuo Wei Tchen The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Cantino Planisphere (1502) The westernization of Europe (1995) / Gerard Delanty. pt. II. Manifest destinies 3. Geo-racial mapping Five categories of Homo Sapiens (1758) / Carl Linnaeus Five races of mankind (1795) / Johann Friedrich Blumenbach The development of color (1844) / Robert Chambers Types of mankind (1854) / Samuel George Morton Descendants of the great apes (1876) / Ernst Haeckel The jolly giant's artist agrees with Darwin (1874) Existing facts of human ascent (1926) / Henry Fairfield Osborn Hither and farther Asia (1837) / G.W.F. Hegel Race and the Asiatic mode of production (1989) / Brendan O'Leary John Stuart Mill's Asian parable (2001) / Robert Kurfirst Gobineau on China as menace (1999) / Gregory Blue World Cephalic Index (1897) / William Z. Ripley Color map of the world (1903) Civilization stands up to the horde, a visual essay (2013) / Dylan Yeats He vomits the Yellow to swallow the White (1904) The pressure of Asia (1904) / H.J. Mackinder With faces like the snouts of dogs (1904) / Theodore Roosevelt The Yellow peril (1904) / Jack London 4. Anglo America's "great game" Justice and the Indian revolt (1857) The year 1899 (1893) / William Ward Crane The psychology of Colonialism (1988) / Ashis Nandy Perilous frontiers (1994) / Gary Okihiro The march of the flag (1898) / Albert Jeremiah Beveridge It ought to be a happy new year (1899) / Victor Gillam Trying on her new necklace (1907) / Luther Bradley The Yellow danger (1898) Unknown (1939) Spectres of the great game (1998) / James L. Hevia Modernity's (Yellow) perils (2006) / Urmila Seshagiri the rising tide of color (1921) Amazing stories (1927). pt. III. Indispensable enemies 5. The enemy within The promise and the peril, a visual essay (2013) / Dylan Yates A statue for our harbor (1881) / George Frederick Keller A Chinese view of the Statue of Liberty (1885) / Saum Song Bo The Chinese Exclusion Case (1889) A peaceful invasion, a visual essay (2013) / Dylan Yates National abjection (2002) / Karen Shimakawa Racial triangulation theory (1999) / Claire Jean Kim The turban tide (1908) Save our state from Oriental aggression (1918) The Mongol in our midst (1924) A future America (1916) / Randolph Bourne The shape of fear (1926) / W.E.B. Du Bois The marching Chinese (1929) Waiting for the signal from home (1942) / Theodor Seuss Geisel The nature of the Mexican American criminal (1942) / Edward Duran Ayres Goddamn brown monkeys (1946) / Carlos Bulosan 12 Chinamen and a woman (1950) AutoWorld (1984) / Helen Zia Is Japan really out to get us? (1992) / Robert B. Reich Chinese professors (2013) / Dylan Yeats Monster, terrorist, fag (2002) / Jasbir Puar and Amit Rai 6. The coming war Tomorrow (1939) Is this tomorrow? (1947) Patterns of a race war (1986) / John W. Dower Remember Pearl Harbor (1942) The age of the world target (1998) / Rey Chow Orientalist totalitarianism (1988) / William Pietz Why the Yellow peril has turned Red! (1951) / Dan Gilbert Red China's fighting hordes (1952) Orientalism and brainwashing in The Manchurian Candidate (2006) / Matthew Jacobson and Gasper Gonzales GIDRA Reimaging Vietnam (2000) / H. Bruce Franklin Post-Vietnam syndrome (2008) / Myra Mendible On our knees (2004) / Jesse Springer Islam and the West : a clash of civilizations? (1999) / John Esposito Militancy considerations : violence and adherence to the Torah, Bible, and Koran (2010) Orientalisms old and new in Battlestar Galactica (2012) / Eve Bennett Epilogue: Uncle Sam and the headless Chinaman. From invading hordes to enemy agents, a great fear haunts the West! The yellow peril is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culturedating back to the birth of European colonialism during the Enlightenment. Yet while Fu Manchu looks almost quaint today, the prejudices that gave him life persist in modern culture. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, and it surveys the extent of this iniquitous form of paranoia. Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation. "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 is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation"-- Provided by publisher