There was a particular concern that immigrants would not fit into America. This fear was a reversal of the traditional American ideal of the “melting pot,” the view that American society and culture dissolved the differences among immigrants to create a unified society. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University.

Five political cartoons on the controversial issue of immigration restriction are presented in this collection. to families overseas. How did the debate incorporate the postwar Red Scare, the Americanism campaign, and the national striving for “normalcy”? CONTENT.

2017年5月24日 · Entitled “The Mortar Of Assimilation—And The One Element That Won’t Mix” it appeared in Puck magazine and shows Irish Americans as the one unruly ethnicity that refuses to integrate into the...

2019年7月17日 · ‘We Can’t Digest The Scum’ by Billy Ireland was first published in The Columbus Dispatch on March 4, 1919. It is reproduced here with assistance from The Billy Ireland …

6 天之前 · This political cartoon from 1880 depicts the Irish as "the one element that won't mix" in America's melting pot of immigrants. Clutching a green flag and dagger, the Irishman is characterized as a violent proponent of Irish nationalism.

Mixing the Devil's Broth, editorial cartoon. This political cartoon appeared on the front page of the Portland Telegram days before Oregon voters passed the initiative on compulsory public school attendance in the 1922 general election. The cartoonist used the imagery of the melting pot, a device proponents of the bill included in their ...

1. What is the title of this cartoon? 2. What does the pot say? 3. Who is in this cartoon? 4. In what year was this published? Level II: Interpretation 1. What is Uncle Sam doing? 2. Explain “melting pot”? Level III: Analysis 1. What is the “scum”? 2. How does this represent the fear of …