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Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era – by Esther Kim Lee

Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era by 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. 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. 296 pages.


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Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era on HardcoverMade-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era on Paperback

Publisher: Univ of Michigan Press

Released: 2022

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