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Focusing on the portrayal of immigrants and minorities in American cartoons from the 1870s to the 1930s, the book delves into the derogatory stereotypes that were prevalent during this era. It highlights the particularly harsh treatment of Jewish individuals through visual and verbal abuse in publications like Judge, Puck, and Life. Baigell analyzes over sixty cartoons, exploring the societal attitudes that permitted their creation and examining their role in fostering anti-Semitism within the American Scene movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Implacable Urge to Defame, Matthew Baigell
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Implacable Urge to Defame
- Subtitle
- Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Matthew Baigell
- Publisher
- Syracuse University
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 234
- ISBN13
- 9780815634966
- Category
- Art / Culture
- Description
- Focusing on the portrayal of immigrants and minorities in American cartoons from the 1870s to the 1930s, the book delves into the derogatory stereotypes that were prevalent during this era. It highlights the particularly harsh treatment of Jewish individuals through visual and verbal abuse in publications like Judge, Puck, and Life. Baigell analyzes over sixty cartoons, exploring the societal attitudes that permitted their creation and examining their role in fostering anti-Semitism within the American Scene movement of the 1920s and 1930s.