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English 150 midterm 1
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English 150 midterm 1Broadway Pageant - correct answer-Walt Whitman
"personification of US"
again America- how America has defined itself with relationship with Asia
through commerce
America sits at the perfect spot between Asia and Europe
A Passage to India - correct answer-Walt Whitman
celebrating 3 technological accomplishments: Suez Canal, transcontinental railroad,
transatlantic communications
he sees this as realizations of Gods purpose
fulfillment of colonization
Christopher Columbus is the hero of this poem
Whitman is the new Columbus
a poet is like an explorer-spiritual journey not a physical one
orientals "yellow face" - correct answer-Robert G lee
stereotypes of Asians in US popular culture
ways of talking about Asians
national review- Clinton cartoon
race as a social construction: not a natural thing
yellow face: marking someone as an Alien
Yellow Peril - correct answer-Jack London
he was a journalist with racist views
traveled through Korea and Manchuria during Russo-Japanese war
full of racial characterizations
real peril: union if Japanese and Chinese
western and eastern soul difference
The Unparalleled Invasion - correct answer-Jack London
reproduces some of the yellow peril
early work of science fiction: biological warfare leads to genocide of entire Chinese
population
invasion: immigration
exclusion of chines immigrants
the yellow peril incarnate - correct answer-fu manchu
traits of him are a mix of different races
super genius- can bring together all these things
desire of world domination
represents idea asians have absorbed ideas of the west
again woman as sexual object
entertaining form of beliefs about yellow peril
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