Title Race and America's Immigrant Press : How the Slovaks were Taught to Think Like White People

Published London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: "Let Each Reader Judge": Lynching, Race, and Immigrant Newspapers; Chapter 3: Spectacles of Difference: Notions of Race Pre-Migration; Chapter 4: "A Slav Can Live in Dirt That Would Kill a White Man": Race and the European "Other"; Chapter 5: "Ceaselessly Restless Savages": Colonialism and Empire in the Immigrant Press; Chapter 6: "Like a Thanksgiving Celebration without Turkey": Minstrel Shows; Chapter 7: "We Took Our Rightful Places": Defended Job Sites, Defended Neighborhoods; Chapter 8: Conclusion Summary 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 t Notes Print version record Subject 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 Slovak Americans -- Ethnic identity Immigrants -- Press coverage Immigrants -- Social conditions Minorities -- Press coverage Race relations Racism in the press Slovak American newspapers Slovak Americans -- Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441161994 1441161996

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