{"product_id":"feeling-yellow-donatella-galella-9780472058396","title":"Feeling Yellow: Asian Americans and Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Musical Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeeling Yellow\u003c\/i\u003e examines how yellowface has persisted on the contemporary musical stage and how Asian Americans have contested yellowface, as they stake their own claim to the theatrical stage and nation state. Donatella Galella boldly argues that the pleasures of musical theatre and the disavowal of systemic anti-Asian racism enable the ongoing portrayal of Asian and Asian American characters by non-Asian actors. Galella offers two concepts to understand these phenomena: feeling yellow and yellowface without yellowed faces. Feeling yellow encapsulates the racialized anger, despair, and alienation of Asian American artists and audiences. Yellowface without yellowed faces denotes subtle ways of conveying Asianness, such as performing Asianness with exaggerated irony, using racialized costumes rather than yellow skin and slanted eye makeup, and setting musicals in fantasy Asian lands populated by multiracial casts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGalella utilizes musicals such as \u003ci\u003eThoroughly Modern Millie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnything Goes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mikado\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSoft Power\u003c\/i\u003e, to understand how Asian and Asian American representation is connected to larger questions: How does racial identity shape emotional reactions to musical theatre? Why does yellowface and anti-Asian racism persist? What are the terms for Asian Americans belonging in the United States? Using a range of approaches from dramaturgy to auto-ethnography and materials from interviews to Reddit posts, \u003ci\u003eFeeling Yellow\u003c\/i\u003e spotlights Asian American affect, artistry, and activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donatella Galella\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472058398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472058396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Donatella Galella","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997319180543,"sku":"9780472058396","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feeling-yellow-donatella-galella-9780472058396","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}