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Who Controls the Narrative? Newspapers and Cincinnati's Anti-Black Riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841

Knuth, Haley Amanda
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9393-4707
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1650644728078183

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2022, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
My graduate thesis project is a museum exhibit on display through the end of May 2022 at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, Ohio which explores the ways in which the newspaper industry in Cincinnati fostered a toxic environment for racial relations in the antebellum era. Editors not only stoked racial tensions to encourage the riots that occurred in 1829, 1836, and 1841, they also shaped the narratives of the riots in their columns to blame the victims and exonerate the perpetrators. What follows is a brief history of the riots, the historiographical research pertaining to the exhibit, and an exploration of the methodological questions I faced when constructing the exhibit.
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele (Advisor)
Helen Sheumaker (Committee Member)
Erik Jensen (Committee Member)
33 p.
African American Studies; African Americans; American History; American Studies; Black History; Black Studies; Modern History; Museum Studies
nineteenth-century printing; antebellum riots; Cincinnati history; Black history; abolitionism; public history; Harriet Beecher Stowe House; digital exhibits; German American newspapers

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  • Knuth, H. A. (2022). Who Controls the Narrative? Newspapers and Cincinnati's Anti-Black Riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841 [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1650644728078183

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Knuth, Haley. Who Controls the Narrative? Newspapers and Cincinnati's Anti-Black Riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841. 2022. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1650644728078183.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Knuth, Haley. "Who Controls the Narrative? Newspapers and Cincinnati's Anti-Black Riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1650644728078183

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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