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From Shanties to Lace Curtains: The Irish Image in Puck, 1876–1910

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

John J. Appel
John J. Appel
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Michigan State University
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Extract

Students of drama, magazine fiction and novels know that virtually every nationality and minority group has been represented by a stereotype in print and on the stage. Social scientists generally discuss stereotypes as components of prejudiced beliefs accompanied by strong, unexamined reactions of dislike or approval. Historians and specialists in literature do not equate stereotyping with prejudice. Instead, they emphasize the origin of stereotypes as routinized, crude or at least oversimplified classifications of multifaceted characters and situations.

Type
Perception of Ethnic and Cultural Differences
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1971 , pp. 365 - 375
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1971

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