Circulating Jim Crow : The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity / Adam McKible.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKible, Adam, author.

Series:

Modernist latitudes.

Modernist Latitudes Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937.

Lorimer, George Horace.

Saturday evening post--History.

Saturday evening post.

American periodicals--History--20th century.

American periodicals.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

African Americans.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

African Americans in popular culture.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Harlem Renaissance.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]

Summary:

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

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. George Horace Lorimer and Rising Jim Crow

2. Literary Aspiration and Intimate Minstrelsy

3. Irvin S. Cobb: Making the New Negro Old Again

4. Hugh Wiley, Edward Christopher Williams, and Black Doughboys

5. Octavus Roy Cohen, the Midnight Motion Picture Company, and the Shadows of Jim Crow

6. The End of the Lorimer Era

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231559492

0231559496

OCLC:

1419870815