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Race and America's immigrant press : how the Slovaks were taught to think like white people
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Race and America's immigrant press : how the Slovaks were taught to think like white people / Robert M. Zecker.
ISBN
9781441134127 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1441134123 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Continuum, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 15, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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