Keevak Becoming Yellow

A Short History of Racial Thinking
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3860-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Keevak, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: No Longer White: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of Yellowness 1

Chapter 1: Before They Were Yellow: East Asians in Early Travel and Missionary Reports 23

Chapter 2: Taxonomies of Yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the Making of a "Mongolian" Race in the Eighteenth Century 43

Chapter 3: Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of "Mongolian" Skin Color 70

Chapter 4: East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Mongolian Eye, the Mongolian Spot, and"Mongolism"101

Chapter 5: Yellow Peril: The Threat of a "Mongolian" Far East, 1895-1920 124

Notes 145

Works Cited 175

Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. His books include Sexual Shakespeare, The Pretended Asian, and The Story of a Stele.