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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Race and America's Immigrant Press

Race and America's Immigrant Press

Zecker, Robert M.

Paperback

Writing InstructionGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1623562392
ISBN13: 9781623562397
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 28 2013
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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