Yellow Taxi (1909)

[Wilson Gray]

"Yellow Cab Company – America's most trusted taxicab service."

<www.yellowcab.com>

So, there really is a "Yellow Cab Company."

-Wilson Gray

On 6/13/05, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 6/13/2005 12:55 PM, you wrote:
> > > I can't find this meaning on Google and don't have a good slang dictionary
> > > at my disposal...
> > >
> >"In 1990, the terms 'yellow cab' and 'resalovers' became current. The former
> >[...] was a reference to Japanese girls in New Ysork, 'cruising and readily
> >available.'" -- The Times magazine, 3 June 1995
> >
> >--Neil Crawford
>
> Slightly earlier, googling:
> (from the New School, NYC)
> http://www.newschool.edu/gf/publicculture/backissues/pc14/kelsky.html
>
> Public Culture. Spring 1994.  Volume 6, Number 3
> "'Intimate Ideologies: Transnational Theory and Japan's 'Yellow Cabs'"
> by Karen Kelsky
> [This seems to be a description, linked from the table of contents, and the
> article itself is not on-line.]
>
>   In Japan, a "yellow cab" is not a taxi. Instead, "yellow cab" is a
> pejorative label for young Japanese women who pursue short-term erotic
> adventures abroad with foreign (especially African-American) men, because
> they are allegedly "yellow" and "as easy to hail as a taxi." Japanese men
> condemn these women, who themselves claim that the deficiencies of men in
> Japan encourage them to search elsewhere.
>
> Anthropologist Karen Kelsky discusses the yellow cab phenomenon in her
> essay "Intimate Ideologies: Transnational Theory and Japan's 'Yellow Cabs'."
>
>
> Joel
>


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-Wilson Gray