Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

About this book

The yellow peril is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culturedating 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.