Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781781681237)

"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"--

Author: John Kuo Wei Tchen, Dylan Yeats
ISBN-10: 1781681236
ISBN-13: 9781781681237
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2014
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/10/2014
Choice 04/01/2014