Author : Matthew Baigell
Release : 2017-04-13
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Implacable Urge to Defame by : Matthew Baigell
Download or read book The Implacable Urge to Defame written by Matthew Baigell. This book was released on 2017-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools, connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly fit for American citizenship, but Jews were especially singled out with visual and verbal abuse. In The Implacable Urge to Defame, Baigell examines more than sixty published cartoons from humor magazines such as Judge, Puck, and Life and considers the climate of opinion that allowed such cartoons to be published. In doing so, he traces their impact on the emergence of anti-Semitism in the American Scene movement in the 1920s and 1930s.