Race and America's immigrant press : how the Slovaks were taught to think like white people

Race and America's immigrant press how the Slovaks were taught to think like white people

"This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Race was all over the immigrant newspaper week after week. As early as the 1890s the papers of the largest Slovak fraternal societies covered lynchings in the South. While somewhat sym...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zecker, Robert, 1962- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Continuum 2011.
Materias:
Immigrants > Press coverage > United States > History.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Minorities > Press coverage > United States > History.
Racism in the press > United States > History.
Slovak American newspapers > History.
Slovak Americans > Race identity.
Slovak Americans > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Let each reader judge" : lynching, race, and immigrant newspapers
  • Spectacles of difference : notions of race pre-migration
  • "A Slav can live in dirt that would kill a white man" : race and the European "other"
  • "Ceaselessly restless savages" : colonialism and empire in the immigrant press
  • "Like a Thanksgiving celebration without turkey" : minstrel shows
  • "We took our rightful places" : defended job sites, defended neighborhoods.

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