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Made-up Asians : yellowface during the exclusion era
- Title
- Made-up Asians : yellowface during the exclusion era / Esther Kim Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Esther Kim
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Additional Authors
- Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
- Description
- xiii, 268 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Summary
- Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific case studies from European and U.S. theater, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee traces the development of yellowface in the U.S. context during the Exclusion Era (1862-1940), when Asians faced legal and cultural exclusion from immigration and citizenship. These caricatured, distorted, and misrepresented versions of Asians took the place of excluded Asians on theatrical stages and cinema screens. The book examines a wide-ranging set of primary sources, including makeup guidebooks, play catalogs, advertisements, biographies, and backstage anecdotes, providing new ways of understanding and categorizing yellowface as theatrical practice and historical subject. Made-Up Asians also shows how lingering effects of Asian exclusionary laws can still be seen in yellowface performances, casting practices, and anti-Asian violence into the 21st century.
- Alternative Title
- Yellowface during the exclusion era
- Subject
- Yellowface > United States
- Asians in the performing arts > History
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in the performing arts
- Race in the theater > United States > History
- Racism against Asians > United States > History
- Asians in the performing arts
- Race in the theater
- Racism against Asians
- Yellowface
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Persistence of Yellowface -- Chapter 1. "A Dumb Chinese Slave" : The Stage Chinaman and Clown Yellowface -- Chapter 2. "Chinee by Nature" : Physiognomy and Scientific Yellowface -- Chapter 3. "How to Makeup" : Theatrical Makeup Guidebooks and Private Yellowface -- Chapter 4. "Dainty as Needs Be" : The White Actress and Cosmetic Yellowface -- Chapter 5. "The Oriental Eye" : Special Effects Technology and Prosthetic Yellowface -- Epilogue: Casting as Gatekeeping -- Appendix: Yellowface Instructions in Theatrical Makeup Guidebooks during the Exclusion Era -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- MFL 22-4144
- ISBN
- 9780472075430
- 0472075438
- 9780472055432
- 0472055437
- LCCN
- 2022006950
- OCLC
- 1264388830
- Author
- Lee, Esther Kim, author.
- Title
- Made-up Asians : yellowface during the exclusion era / Esther Kim Lee.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
- Added Author
- Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lee, Esther Kim. Made-up Asians. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022 9780472220328 (DLC) 2022006951
- Research Call Number
- MFL 22-4144