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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Yellow peril   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yellow peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a phrase that originated in the late 19th century with greater immigration of Chinese and Japanese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States.
The "yellow peril" was a significant part of the policy platform promoted by Richard Seddon, a populist New Zealand prime minister, in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a racist phrase that originated in the late 19th century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yellow-peril   (2678 words)

  
 Yellow peril - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yellow Peril was a phrase that originated in the late 19th century with greater immigration of Chinese and Japanese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States.
The term refers to the skin color of east Asians, and the fear that the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages, standards of living and indeed, civilization itself.
An enthusiastic proponent of the yellow peril concept was Kaiser Wilhelm II.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Yellow_peril   (508 words)

  
 Wordwizard Clubhouse - yellow menace
YELLOW PERIL: Late in the 19th century fears arose in Germany that China and Japan would vastly increase in population within a few decades and would invade nations all over the globe, massacring the inhabitants.
The first Yellow Peril/Menace-type pulp character — the intelligent, well-educated, evil Oriental mastermind bent on destroying the West — appeared in 1892 in a dime novel featuring an articulate Harvard-educated ne’er-do-well who prowled the sea with his fleet of ships (and pre-nuclear submarine) to capture and destroy Western shipping.
The 1916 serial ‘The Yellow Menace’ by Ali Singh might have been the beginning of the mixing of the ‘peril’ and ‘menace’ words.
www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4317   (424 words)

  
 Yellow Peril - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a racist phrase that originated in the late 19th century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States.
The "yellow peril" was a significant part of the policy platform promoted by Richard Seddon, a populist New Zealand prime minister, in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
The "Yellow Peril" was a frequent theme of pulp fiction in the early 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yellow_Peril   (1064 words)

  
 Yellow peril   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yellow Peril was a phrase that originated in the late 19th century with greater immigration of Chinese and Japanese laborers to the United States.
The term refers to the skin color of east Asians, and the racist notion that Asians were a threat to civilization.
The Yellow Peril is a major topic of study in Asian-American studies.
www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/y/ye/yellow_peril.html   (276 words)

  
 YELLOW PERIL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
To further his fun, the Yellow Peril employs a vast collection of "gag gifts" from a now-defunct mail order catalogue that, during the "allowance capital surplus" of postwar 1950's America, could be found dog-eared between every youngster's "Boy's Life" and "National Geographic Samoan Swimsuit Issue".
Peril is never happier than at some plush gathering where he can surreptitiously distribute his "fly in icecube", "doggone doo", or latex "realistic throw up" in a handy punchbowl or buffet table.
Peril started the "Twist" craze a full three months before Chubby Checker's incendiary recording set the whole nation's hips a-twistin' back in the dawn of musical mass merchandising.
users.tellurian.com /chris/YellowPeril.html   (125 words)

  
 The Yellow Peril Mistakes
In Yellow Peril, at their Mother's grave site Del says to Rodney that everything he has got half of it is his, it looks like he kept his word in 'Time on our Hands'.
In Yellow Peril, at the graveyard scene, right at the beginning the suns rays is shining from the east side of where Del and Rodney are sitting.
In Yellow Peril, While Del and Rodney sat at there mothers grave you see a shot fo the head stone that says there mum died in 1965 but in other episodes it says mum died in 1963?.
www.ofah.net /immediacy-223&theme=textonly   (335 words)

  
 "Yellow Peril"
One of the most interesting examples of this bias is the Yellow Peril/Fu Manchu figure, which has appeared in several forms over the decades.
What most people do not realize, however, is that the Yellow Peril figure significantly predates Arthur "Sax Rohmer" Ward's writings; Fu Manchu, while the most archetypal of the Yellow Perils, stands as the high point for the stereotype, neither at the beginning nor at the end of the stereotype's history.
Many of these films linked the yellow peril to white slavery and the various...
www.jahsonic.com /YellowPeril.html   (612 words)

  
 Violet Books: Yellow Peril
The first true Yellow Peril figure — that is, an intelligent, evil mastermind intent on destroying the West — did not appear until 1892.
The next significant Yellow Peril character was a military leader, reflecting the Western fear of the supposed "limitless hordes" of Chinese overrunning white countries.
Fing-Su, from Edgar Wallace's The Yellow Snake in 1929.
www.violetbooks.com /yellowperil.html   (1397 words)

  
 Mellow Yellow or yellow peril? Evening Standard (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Christopher Bailey based his influential Burberry Prorsum collection on yellows that ranged from old gold to egg yolk, Yves Saint Laurent's Stefano Pilati played with sunshine shades for his Spanish-inspired look this season, and even Phoebe Philo's low-key final collection for Chloe was lit up with blocks of dirty lemon.
Larger girls should experiment with blocks of yellow such as a skirt, top or jacket and avoid wearing it as a total, top-to-toe look.
DON'T be afraid to add yellow as a flash of unexpected colour as a layer peeking out from a neck or waistline.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20060703/ai_n16512818   (687 words)

  
 § 64. yellow. 6. Names and Labels. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
Of the color terms used as racial labels, yellow, referring to Asians, is perhaps the least used and the most clearly offensive.
Its primary associations in contemporary English are with the expressions yellow horde and yellow peril, references to the supposed threat posed by Asian peoples who, according to a scenario popular around the turn of the 20th century, were poised to overwhelm the rest of the world, especially whites.
Needless to say, yellow is not a term to be used by outsiders in ordinary discourse today.
www.bartleby.com /64/C006/064.html   (163 words)

  
 Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: The Yellow Peril
A flash of yellow escaping from his elegant left cuff.
You see, John Kerry had on one of those yellow wristbands that indicates the wearer has contributed to Lance Armstrong's cancer-fighting foundation.
The depressing reality for this gang of three is that Lance Armstrong likes to wear yellow, and both candidates for the US presidency like to wear his yellow wristband.
www.eamonn.com /2004/07/the_yellow_peril.htm   (707 words)

  
 NAVAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY N3N YELLOW PERIL
The N3N Yellow Peril was a typical open-cockpit, fabric-covered biplane primary trainer of the day powered by a radial engine driving a two-bladed propeller.
The name Yellow Peril was not the official name of this aircraft but a generic name applied to several primary trainers including the Boeing/Stearman NS and N2S Kaydets, q.v.
Thousands of Naval, Marine and Coast Guard pilots received their primary training in the Yellow Peril until it was replaced by the Boeing/Stearman N2S Kaydet during the latter part of WW II.
www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation/n3n_yellow_peril.htm   (2663 words)

  
 Yellow Peril   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The N3N's flight characteristics were generally favorable, but it was on the ground that it became "perilous".
The name "Yellow Peril" originated from its distinctive color as well as from its use in Naval Aviation Reserve bases where prospective Aviation Cadets received their first training.
In the event that a cadet failed to solo within a certain period of time, he was in "Peril" of not being appointed an Aviation Cadet.
members.aol.com /pinkynorm/public/yellowp.html   (299 words)

  
 The Yellow Peril   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Unfortunately for the Yellow Peril they chose to stage the takeover the very same day Green Lantern's friends, Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Air Wave III were at the airport to see the younger hero off on his flight to Dallas, Texas.
Even though one of the Yellow Peril tried to hold off the late-arriving Green Lantern with a bomb set to destroy the airport, he too was defeated.
The members of the Yellow Peril were handcuffed and taken away.
www.glcorps.org /peril.html   (156 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Breakfast | Watch out... for the yellow peril
It's called the yellow peril, and it's being blown across the country thanks to our European neighbours.
Across the east coast of the UK there have been reports of a fine yellow dust settling on cars.
Calls about the "yellow dust" came from people in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire as well as from as far inland as West Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/breakfast/4764111.stm   (585 words)

  
 The Yellow Peril
As soon as the new Communist régime was securely established, the widow of Sun Yat-sen, the Yellow Jewess Soong Ching-ling, popped up as the second most powerful individual in the country and was probably prevented only by her sex from becoming the actual head.
She must have been the figure about whom her fellow tribesmen rallied, and she remained influential until her death, but she was gradually eclipsed by Mao Tse-tung, one of the cleverest of the bandits who flourished in the 1920s.
Mao's opposition was, naturally, expressed in the usual gibberish of politicians, and no one knows to what extent it was motivated by a wish to deal with the Jewish problem in his own country.
karws.gso.uri.edu /JFK/the_critics/oliver/The_yellow_peril.html   (12968 words)

  
 yellow myths / the yellow peril
One of the most enduring depictions of Asians in film has been the "yellow peril," an image that directly challenges the imperialist notion of the West.
Yellow peril imagery has given rise to such notorious figures as Fu Manchu and Emperor Ming (of Flash Gordon fame), but it also includes many other figures.
According to Marchetti, "the yellow peril combines racist terror of alien cultures, sexual anxieties, and the belief that the West will be overpowered and enveloped by the irresistible, dark, occult forces of the East."
web.mit.edu /21h.153j/www/aacinema/yellowperil.html   (689 words)

  
 ESPNsoccernet - World Cup - Blatter wants to avoid future yellow peril   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
FIFA president Sepp Blatter will consider a rule change allowing three yellow cards before a suspension in future World Cups and has called for a crackdown on players feigning injury to disrupt matches.
Blatter told a news conference in Berlin: 'In the future there should perhaps be three yellow cards in a round before a suspension, and this is something we will take up.
'This would avoid players in the semi-finals on one yellow card who by bad luck may get a second and cannot play in the final.
soccernet.espn.go.com /news/story?id=373231&cc=5739   (372 words)

  
 Talk:Yellow Peril - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Individuals with racial bias in the Western United States emphasized the "yellow peril" as much as their counterparts in the Southern United States emphasized adverse stereotypes of African-Americans." Could this sentence be any worse?
Perhaps the phrase "Yellow (people)" should be included so the international affects of raciscm can be better recognized.
I used to see the term "yellow peril" regularly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Yellow_Peril   (233 words)

  
 Hyphen Blog: Yellow Peril & Other News
From the blog of Bryan Thao Worra (who contributed his writings to Hyphen #9), Iron Man Villain Announced: Yellow Peril Stereotype-Oops, I mean, the Mandarin.
From the blog of Bryan Thao Worra (who contributed his writings to Hyphen #9), Iron Man Villain Announced: Yellow Peril Stereotype--Oops, I mean, the Mandarin.
The long and the short is that the Mandarin is part of a long tradition of 'yellow peril' characters in popular culture, including Fu Manchu, Shiwan Khan, Ming the Merciless and numerous other Asian/Eurasian despots of the pulp fiction era.
www.hyphenmagazine.com /blog/archives/2006/07/yellow_peril_ot.html   (490 words)

  
 Revolution and Other Essays: The Yellow Peril
Truly would he of himself constitute the much-heralded Yellow Peril were it not for his present management.
He is only forty-five millions, and so fast does the economic exploitation of the planet hurry on the planet's partition amongst the Western peoples that, before he could attain the stature requisite to menace, he would see the Western giants in possession of the very stuff of his dream.
It is firmly convinced that it will not permit the yellow and the brown to wax strong and menace its peace and comfort.
sunsite.berkeley.edu /London/Writings/Revolution/yellow.html   (3643 words)

  
 LA Weekly - Yellow Peril   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Light-skinned African-Americans with “high yellow” or “red bone” complexions have always been targets of scorn among darker fls because the “yellowmen” were presumed to be favored by whites — and often flaunted the fact they were.
Light-skinned Eugene (Chris Butler), the boy she meets in school as a 9-year-old, lives in a respectable home inside the city limits with his “yellow” mother, Thelma, and dark-complected father, Robert, whose anger over a lifetime of slights is murderously fueled by the tumblers of bourbon he consumes.
As they mature to adulthood, Alma and Eugene take turns telling how their characters separately came to befriend and eventually fall in love with each other, while also impersonating the couple’s family members and friends.
www.laweekly.com /stage/theater/yellow-peril/413   (767 words)

  
 Myths and Stereotypes
Japanese immigrants were described as an invading horde or "yellow peril" long before the U.S. was at war with Japan.
Labor groups accused Japanese immigrants of lowering the standard of living for white workers, of being dirty and unhealthy, and of being unable to assimilate to American culture.
Other racist propaganda warned of the so-called "mongrelizing" of America that would supposedly result from increasing numbers of people of color.
www.densho.org /causes/1racism/1mythsandstereotypes.asp   (205 words)

  
 Wanted: Yellow Peril -- AsiaPacificUniverse.com
That of the "yellow peril." Nothing quite conjures up such a vision of imminent invasion.
For those who were shipped off to relocation camps and for the few left who remember when it was illegal for Asians to intermarry or for Asian immigrants to own land.
Maybe it is time to live up to the image of the yellow peril.
asiapacificuniverse.com /yellowperil.htm   (468 words)

  
 Stories 1
The mystic sign was, of course, a yellow spot in the snow, the territory of another's rule.
The perils on the path of every adventure are more often those in the cranium.
The path ahead was fraught with peril, yet it was a pleasant path indeed, compared to the alternatives either not possible or worse.
www.alaskastories.com /Stories1.html   (15765 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pistolwhip: Yellow Menace: Books: Jason Hall,Matt Kindt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The book's only downfall is the vague use of the term "yellow," which carries little weight here, but bears a racial burden historically.
But Mitch rescues Peril from a drill bit within the first few pages, and Peril's demise in an explosion was just part of a radio serial, though the explosion did happen.
Moreover, someone really is killing folks resembling the Yellow Menace's victims in the serial in the same ghastly ways.
www.amazon.com /Pistolwhip-Yellow-Menace-Jason-Hall/dp/189183035X   (998 words)

  
 International Relations Center | | The Yellow Peril Revisited
The Yellow Peril Revisited by Jim Lobe and Tom Barry July 12, 2002 0207china.pdf [printer-friendly version] After September 11, the U.S. welcomed China as an ally in the war against terrorism.
On the right, after almost ten months of biting their collective tongues on the Yellow Peril, the fabled "Blue Team," which favors treating China as Washington's next potential peer rival, is getting restive.
Despite President George W. Bush's efforts to embrace Taiwan ever tighter, influential right-wingers close to key policymakers in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney are complaining that the administration has become too complacent about what they see as a growing threat from China.
www.irc-online.org /content/2757   (1488 words)

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