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- Title
Race War Flares Up: Chicago's Swedish Press, the Great Migration, and the 1919 Riots.
- Authors
Björk, Ulf Jonas
- Abstract
This study of the three large Swedish-language weeklies in Chicago examines how they covered the city's African-American community during the latter half of the 1910s, a time when blacks migrated to the North in huge numbers. In Chicago, the result was that the African-American population almost tripled between 1910 and 1920. Little of that was visible in the columns of the weeklies, however, with only a handful of items telling readers that blacks were arriving in record numbers. What news there was about African-Americans, moreover, tended to portray them as criminals. Consequently, the riots that shook Chicago in late July 1919 seemed to take the editors of the weeklies by surprise. A major explanation for the Swedish weeklies' coverage was that they relied almost exclusively on the city's English-language dailies for news that did not concern their own ethnic group and thus mirrored the negative way the dailies portrayed African-Americans.
- Subjects
CHICAGO Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919; GREAT Migration, 1910-1970; BLACK people; RACE relations; ETHNIC groups; IMMIGRANTS; AFRICAN-African American relations
- Publication
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2019, Vol 51, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0044-8060
- Publication type
Article