Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era Lee Esther Kim
Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era Lee Esther Kim Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look…
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Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era Lee Esther Kim
Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. theater, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee traces the development of yellowface in the U.S. Using specific case studies from European and U.S.
These caricatured, distorted, and misrepresented versions of Asians took the place of excluded Asians on theatrical stages and cinema screens. context during the Exclusion Era (1862-1940), when Asians faced legal and cultural exclusion from immigration and citizenship. 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