Yellow peril! : an archive of anti-Asian fear / edited and introduced by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats.

"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...

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Main Authors: Tchen, John Kuo Wei (Author, Editor), Yeats, Dylan (Author, Editor)
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Verso, ©2014.
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Physical Description:xii, 384 pages : illustrations ( some color) ; 24 cm
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