English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Princess Rassari Heshla Tamanya of Ethiopia predicted race war when she met with white reporters in New York in 1935, as Italy prepared to invade her homeland. The princess, though, was a fraud. She was a Harlem singer. This article examines the creation and coverage of a short-lived media hoax to illustrate how the widespread acceptance of racial stereotypes in the mid-twentieth-century United States informed reporters’ understanding of the professional practices of objectivity and sensationalism, which mirrored the racist assumptions that saturated popular culture, especially in mediums influenced by blackface minstrelsy and human zoos. The hoax succeeded because the princess satisfied the expectations of readers and reporters, regardless of race. The article also examines the unmasking and remembrance of the fraud. A Pan-Africanist scholar exposed it because it jeopardized his understanding of the world. It became a historical footnote only after it was stripped of its political and social implications.

The Completely True Story of the Fraudulent Ethiopian Princess: Racial Stereotypes and Journalistic Conventions in the Framing of a Media Hoax