1900 Canon City COLORADO newspaper w Racist essay onTHE "YELLOW PERIL" frm China

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1900 Canon City COLORADO newspaper w Racist essay onTHE "YELLOW PERIL" frm China
1900 Canon City COLORADO newspaper with a blatantly racist essay on THE "YELLOW PERIL" from China
- inv # 7P-235
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Canon City Record
(Canon City, FREMONT COUNTY, Colorado) dated Aug 13, 1900. This rare early original Canon City, COLORADO newspaper contains a prominent inside page headline: "THE YELLOW PERIL" with a long detailed blatantly racist essay on
"THE YELLOW PERIL" from CHINA
.
The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror and the Yellow Specter) is a racist color-metaphor that represents the peoples of East Asia as an existential danger to the Western world. As a psycho-cultural menace from the Eastern world, fear of the Yellow Peril is racial, not national, a fear derived not from concern with a specific source of danger or from any one people or country, but from a vaguely ominous, existential fear of the faceless, nameless hordes of yellow people opposite the Western world. As a form of xenophobia, the Yellow Terror is fear of the Oriental, non-white Other, a racialist fantasy presented in the book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920), by Lothrop Stoddard.
The racist ideology of the Yellow Peril derives from a "core imagery of apes, lesser men, primitives, children, madmen, and beings who possessed special powers", which developed during the 19th Century as Western imperialist expansion adduced East Asians as the Yellow Peril.
In the late 19th century, the Russian sociologist Jacques Novikow coined the term in the essay "Le Péril Jaune" ("The Yellow Peril", 1897), which Kaiser Wilhelm II (r. 1888–1918) used to encourage the European empires to invade, conquer, and colonize China. To that end, using the Yellow Peril ideology, the Kaiser portrayed the Japanese and the Asian victory against the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) as an Asian racial threat to white Western Europe, and also exposes China and Japan as in alliance to conquer, subjugate, and enslave the Western world.
The sinologist Wing-Fai Leung explained the fantastic origins of the term and the racialist ideology: "The phrase yellow peril (sometimes yellow terror or yellow specter) . . . blends Western anxieties about sex, racist fears of the alien Other, and the Spenglerian belief that the West will become outnumbered and enslaved by the East." The academic Gina Marchetti identified the psycho-cultural fear of East Asians as "rooted in medieval fears of Genghis Khan and the Mongol invasions of Europe [1236–1291], the Yellow Peril combines racist terror of alien cultures, sexual anxieties, and the belief that the West will be overpowered and enveloped, by the irresistible, dark, occult forces of the East"; hence, to oppose Japanese imperial militarism, the West expanded the Yellow Peril ideology to include the Japanese people. Moreover, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, writers developed the Yellow Peril literary topos into codified, racialist motifs of narration, especially in stories and novels of ethnic conflict in the genres of invasion literature, adventure fiction, and science fiction.
Very rare
early Canon City (FREMONT COUNTY) Colorado newspaper. It contains national and international news as well as
LOCAL
news and ads from Canon City, COLORADO and FREMONT COUNTY, CO from 1897, some 125 years ago
.
The City of Cañon City is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Fremont County, Colorado, United States. It is one of the few U.S. cities to have the Spanish Ñ in its name, others being La Cañada Flintridge, California; Española, New Mexico; Peñasco, New Mexico; and Cañones, New Mexico. In 1861, the town raised two companies of volunteers to serve with the Second Colorado Infantry during the American Civil War. This regiment fought in skirmishes in nearby New Mexico and as far east as the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and Missouri before ending its organization in 1865.
In 1862, A. M. Cassaday drilled for petroleum 6 miles north of Cañon City, close to a known oil seep. Cassaday struck oil at the depth of 50 feet, and he completed the first commercial oil well west of the Mississippi River. He drilled five or six more wells nearby, and he refined kerosene and fuel oil from the petroleum. Cassaday sold the products in Denver. A number of metal ore smelters were built in Cañon City following the discovery of gold at Cripple Creek in 1891.
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