Article published in:
Language, Culture and Society
Vol. 2:2 (2020) ► pp. 252–259
Forum – COVID-19

The return of the ‘Yellow Peril’

The fear of getting sick from the Other

| University of Massachusetts Boston
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.From the Yellow Peril to the ‘model minority’? – A firsthand account
  • 3.The invention of the model minority
  • 4.The Yellow Peril returns
  • 5.The future?
  • References
Published online: 04 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00029.chu
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