Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Dorothy Pierson Kerig ◽  
Erasmo Gamboa
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
World War ◽  
The Pacific

Education in a Multi-Ethnoracial Setting: Seattle's Neighborhood House and the Cultivation of Urban Community Builders, 1960s–1970s

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen H. Tamura
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Service Agency ◽  
Social Service Agency ◽  
World War ◽  
Settlement House ◽  
Civic Leaders ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Societal Changes

During the mid-1960s, the War on Poverty ushered in a change in outlook on the poor and stimulated Neighborhood House (a social service agency that began as a settlement house) to focus on educative, community-building initiatives. Yet ironically, while staffers offered educational programs for residents, they were themselves becoming educated. The space Neighborhood House provided emerged as a powerful venue in which staffers developed their talents to become socially minded civic leaders. This study of the post–World War II transformation of settlement work in a city in the Pacific Northwest reveals commonalities with other places as well as distinctiveness to Seattle conditions. The article expands the extant scholarship on multi-ethnoracial communities, War on Poverty programs, and settlement house responses to societal changes. In doing so, it reveals the ways in which Neighborhood House provided an important educative space for those who worked there, a place that nurtured their growth as civically minded community builders.

Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947.

1991 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 1312
Author(s):  
James N. Gregory ◽  
Erasmo Gamboa
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
World War ◽  
The Pacific

Before the summit: News media framing, scripts and the flag-raising at Iwo Jima

2021 ◽  
pp. 175063522199094
Author(s):  
Matthew Pressman ◽  
James J Kimble
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
World War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Cognitive Scripts ◽  
New Interpretation

Drawing upon media framing theory and the concept of cognitive scripts, this article provides a new interpretation of the context in which the famous World War II photograph ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima’ appeared. This interpretation is based primarily on an examination of American newspaper and newsreel coverage from the Pacific island battles prior to Iwo Jima. The coverage – especially the pictorial coverage – often followed a three-step sequence that showed US forces proceeding from a landing to a series of skirmishes, then culminating with a flag-raising image. This created a predictable cognitive script. That script, combined with other framing devices found in the news coverage (such as metaphors and catchphrases), conveyed the misleading message that the Allies’ final victory over Japan was imminent in early 1945. The Iwo Jima photo drove home that message more emphatically than anything else. This circumstance had profound implications for government policy at the time and, in retrospect, it illustrates the potency of media framing – particularly in times of crisis or war.

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