Circulating Jim Crow by Adam Mckible

Circulating Jim Crow by Adam Mckible

Adam McKible demonstrates how the Saturday Evening Post used stereotypical dialect fiction to promulgate white supremacist ideology and dismiss Black achievements, citizenship, and humanity.

Gripping and doggedly researched, Circulating Jim Crow exposes the corrosion at the underbelly of the Saturday Evening PostAdam McKible reveals the larger cultural and political context that made the inherently anti-Black magazine popular. Through his deft and energetic prose, McKible offers readers a fresh lens to understand the era of the New Negro Movement as a whole. -- Emily Bernard, author of Black in the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Through meticulous research and crisp prose, Circulating Jim Crow greatly deepens our understanding of the Saturday Evening Post, whose success in the first half of the twentieth century depended greatly on George H. Lorimer’s campaign to define American identity as white supremacist and antiblack. McKible offers a crucial warning for our time. -- Darryl Dickson-Carr, author of Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance
McKible reveals that when not wrapping the American way in Rockwellian nostalgia, the Saturday Evening Post did its best to thwart Black modernity. Full of sobering detail and impassioned judgment, Circulating Jim Crow measures the forbidding height of the wall modern African American writing climbed and conquered. -- William J. Maxwell, author of F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
A brilliant new book by a major scholar of American periodical culture, Circulating Jim Crow reveals the efforts to undermine black modernity at the heart of one of the most successful purveyors of nostalgic Americana. As voices for white supremacy again grow louder, McKible’s compelling analysis of the role cultural institutions play in normalizing racism and xenophobia couldn’t be timelier. -- Mark S. Morrisson, author of Modernism, Science, and Technology
An eye-opening look at manipulative media and the way we were. * Chronogram Magazine *
Detailed, informed, and scholarly . . . Recommended. * Choice Reviews *

Adam McKible is associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is author of The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (2002), editor of Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue (2004), and coeditor of Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (2007).

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ISBN 13	9780231212656
ISBN 10	0231212658
Title	Circulating Jim Crow
Author	Adam Mckible
Series	Modernist Latitudes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Year published	2024-02-20
Number of pages	288
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