Seattle has been home to hundreds of newspapers in the last
century and a half, some of them daily newspapers that have
sought a large readership among the city's dominant populations,
many of them weeklies or monthlies that have tried to represent
minority communities. University of Washington Library
collections include at least twenty different newspapers
representing Seattle's African American community, eighteen
representing the Filipino American community, five Japanese
American, several Chinese American, four German American, three
Jewish, two Italian American, seven Swedish, Norwegian, or
Danish American newspapers. Some of these newspapers were
successful and long lived, others published for only a short
while. They varied also in tone and purpose. But all played some
role in helping their particular community negotiate
relationships with the dominant page is a gateway to learning
more about Seattle's ethnic newspapers and their communities.
The reports that follow were produced by students in advanc