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Author:
Zecker, Robert, 1962-
Title:
Race and America's immigrant press : how the Slovaks were taught to think like white people / Robert M. Zecker.
Publisher:
Continuum,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Slovak American newspapers--History.
Racism in the press--United States--History.
Minorities--History.--United States--History.
Immigrants--History.--United States--History.
Slovak Americans--Race identity.
Slovak Americans--Social conditions.
Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
United States--Race relations.
Notes:
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.
ISBN:
1441134123 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781441134127 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)657602802
LCCN:
2010052821
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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