Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zecker, Robert M

Titel

Race and Americas Immigrant Press

Ort / Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

• DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books (ZDB-94-OAB)
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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• 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. Immigrant newspapers offered a stunning array of lynching accounts, poems and cartoons mocking blacks, and paeans to Americas 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
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