The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism: Consuming the Orient at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the International Potlatch Festival, 1909-1934

Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and International Potlatch provide windows to the construction of a “cosmopolitan” urban ethos in the early twentieth century. Noting the ways this idea embraced Japan and the city's Japanese residents while serving white elites pursuit of urban an...

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Published in:Western Historical Quarterly
Main Author: Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Digital Commons at Oberlin 2007
Subjects:
American Studies
History
Pacific
Yukon
Alaska
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/faculty_schol/1032
https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/38.3.277
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Summary:Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and International Potlatch provide windows to the construction of a “cosmopolitan” urban ethos in the early twentieth century. Noting the ways this idea embraced Japan and the city's Japanese residents while serving white elites pursuit of urban and commercial advantage, the essay also comments on the space between cosmopolitan ideology and the persistence of anti-Japanese prejudice.

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