Article published In:
Language, Culture and SocietyVol. 2:2 (2020) ► pp.252–259
Forum – COVID-19
The return of the ‘Yellow Peril’
The fear of getting sick from the Other
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?
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