HIST285 Lecture 14: Lecture #14 - HIST 285 - How the Chinese Turned from White to Yellow
15 Nov 2017
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China is owned by the chinese people, protoracism, around slavery. How the chinese turned from white to yellow: proto racism era: 16th century to 1800; (vs. orientalism [mid 1800s], and turn of century yellow period") Rough positive correlation of positive attitude towards china with description of skin colour as white" (as westerners are) vs. non-white or. Yellow": 16th and 17th century westerner writings. Overwhelmingly white": 1655 french calvinist isaac de la pevrere heretic". Pre-adamites: genesis: named first man/woman vs adam/eve, gentiles v jews, 15th 17th century iberain catholic reconquest ( reconquista") and. New world (italian columbus: 1492 drive out muslims, jews and columbus, jesuits roots in spain, primarily no proto-racism. Slight exceptions: 16th century alessandro valignano, italian jesuit, accommodation for east asia vs white people" other cultures not, other cultures would not work, everyone else other than white is inferior, the enlightenment. Generally meritocratic, social sciences assume human nature universal.
