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

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.

harlem renaissance.

American literature--African American authors.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"For much of the first half of the twentieth century, The Saturday Evening Post was one of the most influential magazines in the United States read in millions of homes. In the popular imagination, the Post is probably best remembered for its cheery, often nostalgic Norman Rockwell covers portraying American culture as quaint, wholesome, and idyllic, but between those covers lurked a more troubling reality. Under the direction of its longtime editor, George Horace Lorimer, a liberal but also a lifelong advocate for white superiority and racial purity, The Saturday Evening Post, was filled with poetry, fiction, and essays that deployed paternalistic condescension and demeaning humor against Blacks. Writers in the Post used humor and Black dialect fiction to normalize White supremacy and to make the dehumanization of Blacks seem like nothing more than common sense and just good fun. In describing the creation and promulgation of the soft power of Jim Crow ideology in the pages of The Saturday Evening Post, Adam McKible also discusses the efforts of Black writers to counteract these characterizations. Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, and other Harlem Renaissance writers criticized The Saturday Evening Post and fought back against commodified racial caricature popularized by Lorimer. In examining how Black writers responded to The Saturday Evening Post's assault on the idea of Black modernity, McKible provides a new understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and the fight against Jim Crow ideology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

George Horace Lorimer and rising Jim Crow

Literary aspiration and intimate minstrelsy

Irvin S. Cobb : making the new Negro old again

Hugh Wiley, Edward Christopher Williams, and Black doughboys

Octavus Roy Cohen, the Midnight Motion Picture Company, and the shadows of Jim Crow

The end of the Lorimer era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version : McKible, Adam. Circulating Jim Crow

ISBN:

9780231212649

023121264X

9780231212656

0231212658

OCLC:

1392344936