Race and America's immigrant press how the Slovaks were taught to think like white people
"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"...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum
2011.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury OA ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44525588*spi |
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.
