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.
| ISBN: | 9780815634966 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2017 |
| Author: | Matthew Baigell |
| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art |
| Genres: |
The Arts: treatments and subjects Social groups: religious groups and communities History: specific events and topics Strip cartoons |
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.
The Implacable Urge to Defame features in the following genres: The Arts: treatments and subjects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, History: specific events and topics, Strip cartoons
The Implacable Urge to Defame is available in Hardback, Paperback
The Implacable Urge to Defame was written by Matthew Baigell and published by Syracuse University Press
The Implacable Urge to Defame has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art series