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

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

Robert M Zecker

4.9/5 (26117 ratings)

Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People. To get started finding Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 361

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1441161996

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People. To get started finding Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

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

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

More Books

"A Road to Peace and Freedom": The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954

"A Road to Peace and Freedom": The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954

Metropolis: The American City in Popular Culture

Metropolis: The American City in Popular Culture

Streetcar Parishes: Slovak Immigrants Build Their Nonlocal Communities, 1890-1945

Streetcar Parishes: Slovak Immigrants Build Their Nonlocal Communities, 1890-1945

Race and America's Immigrant Press

Race and America's Immigrant Press

Missing Stories: An Oral History Of Ethnic And Minority Groups In Utah. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: The Oral History Review

Missing Stories: An Oral History Of Ethnic And Minority Groups In Utah. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: The Oral History Review

Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks were Taught to Think Like White People by Zecker, Robert M. (2011) Hardcover

Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks were Taught to Think Like White People by Zecker, Robert M. (2011) Hardcover

Intervista (Finding The Words). (Media Reviews).(Review): An article from: The Oral History Review

Intervista (Finding The Words). (Media Reviews).(Review): An article from: The Oral History Review

From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954

From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954