Yellow Racism As Large As White Racism


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Yellow Racism is a pioneering book that focuses on Asian Racism, Hong Kong, China, Singapore & Malaysia, Japan & Korea. It's a gutsy, original work, a must for all readers on racism. Though not denying the historical sweep of White Racism, it surprises us with information on countries such as Japan and China that developed full and lucrative slavery trading systems, long before Columbus set foot in American in 1492.Though this racism cruelly targets Blacks, African or African American blacks, due to the centuries old worship of paler skin, it also can show bias towards Whites, and even other Asians: Mainland Chinese vs. Hong Kong Chinese, Asian women who state boldly they prefer Whites to their own men, and sadly, Yellow Moms and Whites Dads who favour White, yet have half-Asian kids, called Hapas.These racist individuals are but a small minority of people in Asia, and I expect this book to be misquoted, as even critics of racism now risk being called racist, with a volatile social climate.In Hong Kong, we learn of Harmony, a young black woman subjected to the Nose Pinching Gesture, where a Chinese closes their nostrils when seated beside a Black or even a White. I myself have witnessed this 4 or 5 times. We also learn of the needless hospital death of a young Indian woman, Harinder Veriah, for no other reason than she had Dark Skin.In Malaysia, true crime websites link rampant crime waves to African students, with no statistics to back them up. Lewd comments about the sexuality of blacks stealing their women show the true fear. In Singapore and Malaysia both Indians and even PRC Chinese face housing bias. They just are not wanted, for the crime of being born another type of human being.Pure Blood theories of Japan and Korea feature, with similar fears of Foreign Men dating their women, and even signs posted openly on bars and stores and restaurants: No Foreigners Admitted.A refreshing chapter on Christian Guilt attempts to explain why Western democracies flagellate themselves for small amounts of racism, while a Niagara Falls of racism in Asia scarcely gathers notice, and is even apologized for by some Whites: phrases such as unintentional racism, innocent racism, and system racism - they let the individual off the hook for any responsibility.The chapter on half-Asian children is poignant. The adult children of Asian moms and White dads begin boldly to speak out all over the Internet as to having moms who clearly adored and preferred White Men to their own Asian Men. It's Yellow Racism mating up with White Racism, posing as the Globalist Couple.The author takes new leaps in thought, and suggests the Chinese Eunuch Myth, that Asian men are secondary, is the other side of the same racist coin of the Sexy Black Stud, that blacks are to be valued for their physicality. Sexiness in the world of Classic Racism as a primary trait is not helpful. A fully rounded human has a mind, a character, and a spiritual dimension: a soul, a spirit.(Jews in Nazi Germany seen as sexual predators, while in Canada, both the First Nations women and the French women of Quebec were viewed as sexier.)In Mainland China, a pretty young half-black television singer was savagely attacked for having a black American father. As with the Malay crime sites, the fear of the black man's sexuality fueled the flames. An illogical fear, as all humans are different. Asian women found in crime rings with African men are there as much for the money, not sexual romance.Yellow Racism has been forgiven by Whites because "It is not as violent as the American kind." Yet to deprive people of housing and jobs due to skin shade or tone - is this not a type of violence?Arielle Gabriel also writes of Christian Guilt, as a partial explanation as to why Western democracies are so self-critical, writing of her Sunday School lessons in Canada. She intends her book to open a discussion, hoping for a lively and friendly debate, on Yellow Racism.




From White to Yellow


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When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, From White to Yellow is a groundbreaking study of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, Rotem Kowner demonstrates that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but rather was a direct product of earlier discourses of the "Other." This compelling study indicates that the racial discourse on the Japanese, alongside the Chinese, played a major role in the rise of the modern concept of race. While challenging Europe's self-possession and sense of centrality, the discourse delayed the eventual consolidation of a hierarchical worldview in which Europeans stood immutably at the apex. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, From White to Yellow traces the racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.




ego trip's Big Book of Racism!


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Ferociously intelligent one moment, willfully smart-ass the next, ego trip's Big Book of Racism is a glorious, hilarious conflation of the racial undercurrents that affect contemporary culture at every turn. This one-of-a-kind encounter with the absurdities, complexities, and nuances of race relations is brought to you by five writers of color whose groundbreaking independent magazine, ego trip, has been called "the world's rawest, stinkiest, funniest magazine" by Spin. Filled with enough testifying and truth to satisfy even the good Reverend Sharpton, ego trip's Big Book of Racism is a riotous and revolutionary look at race and popular culture that's sure to spark controversy and ignite debate.




Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black And White


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A leading voice in the Asian American community tackles what it means to be Asian American in contemporary America. This explosive book examines the current state of civil rights in the U.S. through the unique experiences of Asian Americans and how they view the democratic process.




White Fragility


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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.




Opening the Gates to Asia


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Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on Asian immigration. The mid-twentieth century repeal of Asian exclusion, Hong shows, was part of the price of America's postwar empire in Asia. The demands of U.S. empire-building during an era of decolonization created new opportunities for advocates from both the U.S. and Asia to lobby U.S. Congress for repeal. Drawing from sources in the United States, India, and the Philippines, Opening the Gates to Asia charts a movement more than twenty years in the making. Positioning repeal at the intersection of U.S. civil rights struggles and Asian decolonization, Hong raises thorny questions about the meanings of nation, independence, and citizenship on the global stage.




Becoming Yellow


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The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinking 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 anthropologists, assigned colors to all racial groups, and once East Asians were lumped with members of the Mongolian race, they began to be considered yellow. Demonstrating how a racial distinction took root in Europe and traveled internationally, Becoming Yellow weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.




"Yellow Peril"


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How Not to Get Shot


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALIST "Hilarious yet soul-shaking." —Black Enterprise The fearless comedy legend—one of the “Original Kings of Comedy”—hilariously breaks down the wisdom of white people, advice that has been killing black folks in America for four hundred years and counting. 200 years ago, white people told black folks, “‘I suggest you pick the cotton if you don’t like getting whipped.” Today, it’s “comply with police orders if you don’t want to get shot.” Now comedian/activist D. L. Hughley–one the Original Kings of Comedy–confronts and remixes white people’s “advice” in this “hilarious examination of the current state of race relations in the United States” (Publishers Weekly). In America, a black man is three times more likely to be killed in encounters with police than a white guy. If only he hadcomplied with the cop, he might be alive today, pundits say in the aftermath of the latest shooting of an unarmed black man. Or, Maybe he shouldn’t have worn that hoodie … or, moved moreslowly … not been out so late … Wait, why are black peopleallowed to drive, anyway? This isn’t a new phenomenon. White people have been giving “advice” to black folks for as long as anyone can remember, telling them how to pick cotton, where to sit on a bus, what neighborhood to live in, when they can vote, and how to wear our pants. Despite centuries of whites’ advice, it seems black people still aren’t listening, and the results are tragic. Now, at last, activist, comedian, and New York Times bestselling author D. L. Hughley offers How Notto Get Shot, an illustrated how-to guide for black people, full of insight from white people, translated by one of the funniest black dudes on the planet. In these pages you will learn how to act, dress, speak, walk, and drive in the safest manner possible. You also will finally understand the white mind. It is a book that can save lives. Or at least laugh through the pain. Black people: Are you ready to not get shot! White people: Do you want to learn how to help the cause? Let’s go!




How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


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The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice. The New York Times bestseller How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi is shaping the way a generation thinks about race and racism. How to be a (Young) Antiracist is a dynamic reframing of the concepts shared in the adult book, with young adulthood front and center. Aimed at readers 12 and up, and co-authored by award-winning children's book author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist empowers teen readers to help create a more just society. Antiracism is a journey--and now young adults will have a map to carve their own path. Kendi and Stone have revised this work to provide anecdotes and data that speaks directly to the experiences and concerns of younger readers, encouraging them to think critically and build a more equitable world in doing so.