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"Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify demonic sulfur and bile, the color of forgers, felon knights, traitors, Judas, and Lucifer--while warm yellow recalled honey and gold, serving as a sign of joy, pleasure and abundance. The yellow stars of the Holocaust were seared into the color's negative tradition. In Europe today, yellow has diminished to a discreet color. Greenish yellow can still be seen as dangerous, sickly, or poisonous, and golden yellow remains positive, but the color is absent in much of everyday life and is lacking in symbolism. In Asia, however, yellow pigments like ocher and orpiment and dyes like saffron, curcuma, and gaude are abundant. Painting and dyeing in this color has been easier than in Europe, offering a richer and more varied palette of yellows that has granted the color a more positive meaning. In ancient China, for example, yellow clothing was reserved for the emperor. In India, the color is seen as a source of happiness: wearing a little yellow is believed to keep evil away. And importantly, it is the color of Buddhism, whose temple doors are marked with the color. Yellow continues to have different meanings in different cultural traditions, but in most, the color remains associated with light and sun, something that can be seen from afar and that seems warm and always in motion"--

Jaune dans l'art. --- Symbolisme des couleurs --- Couleur --- Jaune. --- Yellow in art. --- Symbolism of colors --- Color --- Yellow. --- Histoire. --- Aspect social --- Aspect psychologique --- History. --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Adage. --- Adjective. --- Athanasius Kircher. --- Beige. --- Bible Historiale. --- Blond. --- Cagot. --- Caravaggio. --- Chivalric romance. --- Church Fathers. --- Classical Latin. --- Clothing. --- Coat of arms. --- Courtly love. --- Cubism. --- Degenerate art. --- Demagogue. --- Dionysus. --- Dyeing. --- Egyptomania. --- Etymology. --- Eurystheus. --- Facsimile. --- Fauvism. --- Gold leaf. --- Grandes Chroniques de France. --- Grisaille. --- Hebrews. --- Heraldry. --- Iconography. --- Impressionism. --- Iseult. --- Jan Hus. --- Jan Steen. --- Jean Chardin. --- Lacquer. --- Ludwig Wittgenstein. --- Medieval Latin. --- Middle French. --- Naples yellow. --- Nibelungenlied. --- Ochre. --- On the Eve. --- Orpiment. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Paul Klee. --- Philip II of Macedon. --- Pigment. --- Pope Innocent III. --- Prostitution. --- Red hair. --- Rococo. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman de Fauvel. --- Roman sculpture. --- Silver age. --- Simon Vouet. --- Sumptuary law. --- Superiority (short story). --- Talc. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Tables of the Law. --- The Various. --- Trickster. --- Urine. --- Victor Hugo. --- Vinegar. --- Yellow Peril. --- Yellow journalism. --- Language and languages --- Gold-leaf. --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects.

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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.

Racism --- Race awareness --- East Asians --- National characteristics, East Asian --- History --- Race identity --- National characteristics, East Asian. --- Race identity. --- S11/1200 --- S02/0300 --- S03/0240 --- J4129 --- China: Social sciences--Anthropology, ethnology (incl. human palaeontology): general and China --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa --- China: Geography, description and travel--Travels: 1500-1840 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- East Asian national characteristics --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Race relations --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Ethnic attitudes --- Asians --- Ethnology --- Sociology of minorities --- History of Asia --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Critical race theory --- Carl Linnaeus. --- China. --- Chinese. --- Down syndrome. --- East Asian bodies. --- East Asians. --- Far East. --- Franois Bernier. --- Japan. --- Japanese. --- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. --- Mongolian bodies. --- Mongolian eye. --- Mongolian race. --- Mongolian spot. --- Mongolian. --- Mongolianness. --- Mongolism. --- Sino-Japanese War. --- Tartar. --- Tom Pires. --- Wilhelm II. --- anatomical quantification. --- anthropology. --- color top. --- homo sapiens. --- human taxonomies. --- medicine. --- merchants. --- missionaries. --- race. --- racial thinking. --- racism. --- skin color. --- travel narrators. --- whiteness. --- yellow peril. --- yellow race. --- yellow. --- yellowness. --- Racism - Western countires - History - 18th century --- Racism - Western countires - History - 19th century --- Race awareness - Western countries - History - 18th century --- Race awareness - Western countries - History - 19th century --- East Asians - Race identity