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Race and America's immigrant press :

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Race and America's immigrant press :

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how the Slovaks were taught to think like white people /

Robert M. Zecker.

New York :

Continuum,

2011.

1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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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"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 sympathetic, these articles nevertheless enabled immigrants to distance themselves from the "blackness" of victims, and became part of a strategy of asserting newcomers' tentative claims to "whiteness." Southern and eastern European immigrants began to think of themselves as white people. They asserted their place in the U.S. and demanded the right to be regarded as "Caucasians," with all the privileges that accompanied this designation. Circa 1900 eastern Europeans were slightingly dismissed as "Asiatic" or "African," but there has been insufficient attention paid to the ways immigrants themselves began the process of race tutoring through their own institutions. Immigrant newspapers offered a stunning array of lynching accounts, poems and cartoons mocking blacks, and paeans to America's imperial adventures in the Caribbean and Asia. Immigrants themselves had a far greater role to play in their own racial identity formation than has so far been acknowledged."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Race and America's immigrant press.

9781441134127

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.

Immigrants-- Press coverage.

Immigrants-- Social conditions.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Journalism.

Minorities-- Press coverage.

Race relations.

Racism in the press.

Slovak American newspapers.

Slovak Americans-- Social conditions.

United States, Race relations.

United States.

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LAN-- 008000

Zecker, Robert,1962-

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