Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear
Zoomicon-zoom-in
Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

By
Dylan Yeats (Author) John Kuo Wei Tchen (Author)  

Paperback

In Stock

Quantity
The "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. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, and it surveys the extent of this iniquitous form of paranoia. 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.
John Kuo-Wei Tchen is a professor at New York University, the author of New York Before Chinatown, and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America. Dylan Yeats is a doctoral candidate at New York University.
  • Contributor: Dylan Yeats
  • Imprint: Verso Books
  • ISBN13: 9781781681237
  • Number of Pages: 336
  • Packaged Dimensions: 153x234x24mm
  • Packaged Weight: 862
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Release Date: 2014-02-11
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: John Kuo-Wei Tchen is a professor at New York University, the author of New York Before Chinatown, and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America. Dylan Yeats is a doctoral candidate at New York University.

Delivery Options

Home Delivery

Store Delivery

Free Returns

We hope you are delighted with everything you buy from us. However, if you are not, we will refund or replace your order up to 30 days after purchase. Terms and exclusions apply; find out more from our Returns and Refunds Policy.