ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton Univers. Press] Hardcover Explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell t.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2011]
Show/Hide image

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: White Lotus Press, Princeton] Softcover Becoming Yellow
[APO, AP, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
Show/Hide image

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Used copy in good condition - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover 2011. Hardcover. Explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 color illus. 16 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSL; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking
[Franklin Lakes, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
[Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton] Hardcover A nice, bright copy. ; B & W Illustrations; 0.1 X 0.1 X 0.1 inches; 219 pages
[Portland, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

Princeton Princeton University Press 2011 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p. Contains: Figures.

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover
[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
Show/Hide image

Princeton University Press, Date: 2011-05-08. Hardcover. Good. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking 2011. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691140316 9780691140315 [US]

Princeton Univ Pr 2011 Hardcover New 219 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches.

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]
Show/Hide image

ISBN10: 0691140316, ISBN13: 9780691140315, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Hardcover Hardcover. In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did Asians become "yellow" in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, Becoming Yellow explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. From the walls of an ancient Egyptian tomb, which depicted people of varying skin tones including yellow, to the phrase "yellow peril" at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe and America, Michael Keevak follows the development of perceptions about race and human difference.He indicates that the conceptual relationship between East Asians and yellow skin did not begin in Chinese culture or Western readings of East Asian cultural symbols, but in anthropological and medical records that described variations in skin color. Eighteenth-century taxonomers such as Carl Linnaeus, as well as Victorian scientists and early ...