ISBN:
9781400838608
,
1400838606
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (219 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Keevak, Michael, 1962- Becoming yellow
DDC:
305.8009182109033
Keywords:
Racism History
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18th century
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Western countries
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Racism History
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19th century
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Western countries
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Race awareness History
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18th century
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Western countries
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Race awareness History
;
19th century
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Western countries
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East Asians Race identity
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National characteristics, East Asian
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Race awareness History 19th century
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East Asians Race identity
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Race awareness History 18th century
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Racism History 19th century
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Racism History 18th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General
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National characteristics, East Asian
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Race awareness
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Racism
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Ethnische Identität
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Rassismus
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Asiaten
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Europäer
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Rasism ; historia
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Asiater ; etnicitet
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Asiater ; attityder till
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History
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Western countries
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Introduction: no longer white: the nineteenth-century invention of yellowness -- 1. Before they were yellow: East Asians in early travel and missionary reports -- 2. Taxonomies of yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the making of a "Mongolian" race in the eighteenth century -- 3. Nineteenth-century anthropology and the measurement of "Mongolian" skin color -- 4. East Asian bodies in nineteenth-century medicine: the Mongolian eye, the Mongolian spot, and "Mongolism" -- 5. Yellow peril: the threat of a "Mongolian" Far East, 1895--1920
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-210) and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7t16j
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