The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism: Consuming the Orient at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the International Potlatch Festival, 1909-1934
Abstract
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.
Repository Citation
Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee. 2007. "The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism: Consuming the Orient at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the International Potlatch Festival, 1909-1934." Western Historical Quarterly 38(3).
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Publication Title
Western Historical Quarterly
Department
Comparative American Studies
Additional Department
History
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/whq/38.3.277
Language
English
Format
text
