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

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 vi...

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Published: Bloomsbury Academic 2011
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