Jim Crow networks : African American periodical cultures / Eurie Dahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dahn, Eurie, author.

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American periodicals--History--20th century.

African American periodicals.

African American newspapers--History--20th century.

African American newspapers.

American literature--African American authors--Publishing--History.

American literature.

African Americans and mass media.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

African Americans.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

American literature--African American authors.

Publishing.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Scholars have paid relatively little attention to the highbrow, middlebrow, and popular periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era-publications such as the Chicago Defender, the Crisis, Ebony, and the Half-Century Magazine. Jim Crow Networks considers how these magazines and newspapers, and their authors, readers, advertisers, and editors worked as part of larger networks of activists and thinkers to advance racial uplift and resist racism during the first half of the twentieth century. As Eurie Dahn demonstrates, authors like James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Jean Toomer wrote in the context of interracial and black periodical networks, which shaped the literature they produced and their concerns about racial violence. This original study also explores the overlooked intersections between the black press and modernist and Harlem Renaissance texts, and highlights key sites where readers and writers worked toward bottom-up sociopolitical changes during a period of legalized segregation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Middlebrow Networks

James Weldon Johnson and the Half-Century Magazine

ch. Two Affective Networks

Nella Larsen and the Chicago Defender

ch. Three Readerly Networks

William Faulkner's Magazine Publics

ch. Four Global Networks

Cane in the Magazines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625345257

1625345259

9781625345264

1625345267

OCLC:

1153341179