The Yellow Peril: The Rise and Transformation of a Racialist Ideology

FAIN: FT-285719-22

Brian Masaru Hayashi
Kent State University (Kent, OH 44242-0001)

Research and writing two chapters of a book examining U.S. military and congressional views of the “Yellow Peril” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.   

This study examines the historical roots of the Yellow Peril racialist ideology to answer in part the question of why some nine-thousand cases of assault against Asian Americans have taken place nation-wide from March 2020 to June 2021, as reported by the American media.