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

by Robert M. Zecker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623562392
• ISBN13: 9781623562397
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"