YELLOW PERIL • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Yellow peril

... like the Negro, is condemned to remain among us an abstraction, a symbol—and a symbol not merely of his own race but of the Orient and of that vague, ill-defined menace we sometimes refer to as the "yellow peril." This not only determines to a very large extent the attitude of the white world toward the yellow man but it determines the attitude of the yellow man toward the white. It puts between the races the invisible but ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park