Race and America's Immigrant Press [electronic resource] : How the Slovaks were Taught to Think Like White People.

London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011.

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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.

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Print version: Zecker, Robert M. Race and America's Immigrant Press : How the Slovaks were Taught to Think Like White People. London : Continuum International Publishing Group, ©2011

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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.

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