Fearing Yellow, Imagining White: Media Analysis of the ...

The concern over Chinese labor competing with “white” labor took shape under the assumed theory of Chinese servility and slavery in the USA. For example, 84 references were made to the Chinese as “coolies.” “Coolies,” as mentioned before, refers to the Chinese in a system of contract labor. However, there was a tendency to conflate contract labor with slavery in the news coverage ... ................
................