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Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era

Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era

Lee, Esther Kim

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Asian American StudiesFilm StudiesTheater History

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ISBN10: 0472055437
ISBN13: 9780472055432
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Jul 11 2022
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Winner of the 2023 American Society for Theatre Research Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History

  • Winner of the 2023 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award with Distinction in Scholarly Achievement
  • Winner of the 2023 American Theatre and Drama Society John W. Frick Award
  • Finalist of the 2022 Theater Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award

Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific case studies from European and U.S. theater, race science, and early film, 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. These caricatured, distorted, and misrepresented versions of Asians took the place of excluded Asians on theatrical stages and cinema screens. 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 Asian exclusionary laws can still be seen in yellowface performances, casting practices, and anti-Asian violence into the 21st century.

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