There emerged the Oriental-a single pan-Asian American stereotype weighted with sexual and gender meaning. As she reveals, white reporters, writers, artists, and others conflated Chinese and Japanese, previously seen as two races, into one. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular.Īmy Sueyoshi draws on everything from newspapers to felony case files to oral histories in order to examine how whites' pursuit of gender and sexual fulfillment gave rise to racial caricatures. About the BookFreewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco.
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