The Image of Immigrants as Anarchists in the American Press, 1886-1888

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dc.contributor.authorWasilewski, Krzysztof
dc.date.issued2020-06-26
dc.description.abstractThe article analyzes the American press coverage of anarchism and anarchists between 1886 and 1888. The bomb explosion during the May 4, 1886, mass protest in Chicago started a wave of “anarchism scare” that swept through the United States. Anarchism and anarchists became one of the major public topics of the period. Relying on theoretical concepts such as libertarian press theory and René Girard’s idea of the scapegoat, and applying the method of critical discourse analysis, I explore how local and metropolitan US newspapers framed anarchism as a foreign ideology professed only by immigrants, making them the collective scapegoat for the social upheaval. The press set the standard of “appropriate behavior,” according to which all patriotic and loyal citizens were to accept the political and economic system and those who thought otherwise were branded anarchists and foreigners. Therefore, the American press proved to be an important pillar of the sociopolitical system. (KW)en
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dc.identifier.citationHungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 No. 2 (2017) ,
dc.identifier.eissn2732-0421
dc.identifier.issn1218-7364
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.jtitleHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/294898en
dc.identifier.volume23
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7321
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.subjectAmerican pressen
dc.subjectanarchismen
dc.subjectUS historyen
dc.titleThe Image of Immigrants as Anarchists in the American Press, 1886-1888en
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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