{"product_id":"yellow-peril-isbn-9781781681237","title":"Yellow Peril!","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom invading hordes to enemy agents, a great fear haunts the West!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe “yellow peril” is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culture—dating back to the birth of European colonialism during the Enlightenment. Yet while Fu Manchu looks almost quaint today, the prejudices that gave him life persist in modern culture. \u003ci\u003eYellow Peril!\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, and it surveys the extent of this iniquitous form of paranoia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation.“Smart, funny, comprehensive, and theoretically astute.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Nell Irvin Painter, author of \u003ci\u003eThe History of White People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A kaleidoscopic study rich in historical depth, topical breadth, and critical rigor.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —John Dower, author of \u003ci\u003eEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An insightful new anthology.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Steven Heller, \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A comprehensive archive of the underbelly of anxiety and hatred. As the US economy suffers from acute indigestion, ‘China,’ like ‘Japan’ before it, will provide a dishonest salve. Close attention to the history of the ‘yellow peril’ will protect the good-minded from falling deep into the well of is virulence.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Vijay Prashad, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This brilliant, well-documented book provides much-needed historical perspectives on oriental-phobia, and other racist and racial ways of thinking.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Jack G. Shaheen, author of \u003ci\u003eReel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An exhaustive but not exhausting set of readings.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Sander L. Gilman, author of \u003ci\u003eSmart Jews\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFat: A Cultural History of Obesity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In this illuminating book, Tchen and Yeats address the political and cultural legacy of yellow perilism, that set of beliefs and practices stemming from a long tradition of othering, identity formation, and binary divisions of ‘the West’ and ‘the East’ … What emerges is a compelling case that cultural and political change is needed, and that change is possible only through ‘historical recognition,’ which, Tchen and Yeats say, leads to ‘reckoning and action.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Kuo-Wei Tchen\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor at New York University, the author of \u003ci\u003eNew York Before Chinatown, \u003c\/i\u003eand co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDylan Yeats\u003c\/b\u003e is a doctoral candidate at New York University.Beautifully-illustrated archive of Yellow Peril images and paraphernalia","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300337242341,"sku":"NP9781781681237","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781681237.jpg?v=1767744678","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/yellow-peril-isbn-9781781681237","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}