Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles Over Race and Representation, 1890-1930

by M. Alison Kibler

A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative study, M. Alison Kibler uncovers, for the first time, powerful and concurrent campaigns by Irish, Jewish and African Americans against racial ridicule in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469618362
• ISBN13: 9781469618364
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"