| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Canada and the United States

Krystyn R. Moon. Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 220. $23.95.

Similar to recent works on U.S. orientalism, Krystyn R. Moon's book argues for the centrality of popular cultural discourses on Asians and Asian Americans in shaping American culture and national identity. Moon's monograph examines how white, Chinese American, and African American songwriters, musicians, and performers have constructed and contested racial differences and hierarchies through the practice of "yellowface," a set of racially coded modes of musical production and theatrical practices that conveyed notions of "Chineseness" as inherently foreign and inferior to American or European culture and society. While previous scholars have discussed yellowface as part of their inquiry into the formation of American orientalism, Moon is the first to provide a broad survey of yellowface performance and music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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