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• Title: Return of the "Heathen Chinee": Stereotypes in Chinese American Archaeology (2C Paper)
• Author : Chinese America: History and Perspectives
• Release Date : January 01, 2007
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 191 KB

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The following paper is an excerpt from my University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology senior honors thesis on Chinese American historical archaeology and stereotype, that is, pervasive, preconceived, and usually racialized notions regarding a particular group of people. While the full paper goes into more detail regarding stereotype's influential role in archaeology and its alarming consequences, this segment examines and evaluates the field in light of powerful, hegemonic, nineteenth-century stereotypes. In 1850, a New York public school surveyed its upper-grade students on their knowledge of China. The results proved to be mixed, contradictory, and conflicted; in addition to a girl's statement that "China is known for tea and also for the peculiar caracter [sic] of its inhabitants," numerous responses commented on "the Chinese taste for puppy dogs, cats, rats, or other vermin." (1) Culturally immersed in this line of thought from childhood, anti-Asian sentiment in the realm of children echoed the cries of the adult world. According to Presbyterian missionary Reverend Ira B. Condit:

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