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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zecker, Robert 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
PhysicalDescription:1 online resource (xii, 348 p.) ill.
Published: New York Continuum 2011
ISBN:9781441161994 (electronic bk)
1441161996 (electronic bk)
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
Table of Contents:
  • "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