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Jim Crow modernism / edited by Adam McKible, Robert Jackson, Keith Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Arts and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Arts and society.
- Modernism (Aesthetics)--United States.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Racism and the arts--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism and the arts.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- Arts and society--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- The 'problem of the twentieth century' was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W.E.B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as 'the colour line' a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that promulgated legal segregation, cultural separation, and racial antagonism in the US from the end of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era. A more familiar name, borrowed from the popular tradition of blackface minstrelsy, personified this elusive but ever-present racial regime: Jim Crow. Taking as its starting point the contemporaneity of the Jim Crow era and the modernist era in art and culture, this text explores how these phenomena informed one another, and how artists and thinkers on both sides of the colour line worked in and against the 'separate but equal' landscape and the organizing logic of Jim Crow.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Jim Crow Modernism
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Introduction Adam McKible, Robert Jackson, and Keith Clark
- Jim Crow Consciousness
- Garden Cloisters and Other Futures
- Jim Crow Spaces
- Erasing Jim Crow
- PART I: Spaces and Networks
- 1: Shanties, Brick Office Buildings, Theaters, Drug Stores, Restaurants, and Cabarets: The Urban Black Geography of U. S. Modernism
- 2: The Whiteness of Bones: T. S. Eliot in Death Valley, St. Louis
- Separation in St. Louis
- Forgetting Jim Crow in "Ash-Wednesday"
- "Ol Man River": Remembering Jim Crow in "The Dry Salvages"
- 3: Bad Boys Make Good Roads: Incarceration and Infrastructure in the US South
- 4: 135th Street and Lenox v. Rastus Jones: Spring 3100 and Modernist Representations of Blackness within the NYPD
- 5: Jim Crow and the Modern American Subject
- 6: Modernist Studies and the Redlining of African American Poetry
- PART II: Genres, Traditions, Discourses
- 7: "Traditions of the People": The Racial Habits of Charles W. Chesnutt and T. S. Eliot
- Eliot's Southern Stance
- Chesnutt's Pragmatism: Collective Habit and Social Change
- 8: The Bildungsroman in Jim Crow Modernism
- 9: Cloistered Gardens: Jane Crow's Ecofeminist Poetics
- Anne Spencer's Botanical Poetics
- Solarium Workshops and Urban Refuge
- 10: Playing a Color Line: Satirizing the Harlem Renaissance
- To the Manor Born
- 11: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Movies, 1921
- An American Crime
- The Burden of Race
- 12: A Picture of Modern Black Life: The Musical Specialty in Sound-Era Race Films
- PART III: Bodies, Ethnicities, Performances
- 13: Prophecy and the Veil: The Intertextuality of W. E. B. Du Bois and Sui Sin Far
- 14: Isamu Noguchi's Handcrafted Citizenship: The Modernist Art and Politics of Japanese America in the Incarceration
- Contingent Citizenship under Jim Crow
- Crafting for a "Middle People"
- No Place for Belonging
- Conclusion
- 15: The Maternal Bodies of Jim Crow Modernism: Black and White Women and Literary Procreation
- 16: Black Humor in the Jim Crow Era: Gwendolyn Bennett's "Funny" Endings
- 17: Connecticut Goddam: Queer Crow Masculinity and Sexuality in Ann Petry's "Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?"
- Connecticut Goddam: Ann Petry's Dixified New England
- "That Was a Funny Thing to Say": Que(e)rying Jim Crow Modernism
- PART IV: Imperialism, Colonialism, Globalism
- 18: A Moveable Beast: Jim Crow in the City of Lights
- Constructing Americaness in Paris
- A Moveable Beast: Constructing Blackness in Paris
- Jim Crow and the Milieu of the Lost Generation
- 19: Critical Compression and Black Transnational Periodicals: Reading Racism at the Scale of the World
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 1, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jim Crow modernism.
- ISBN:
- 9780197699720
- 0197699723
- 9780197699706
- 0197699707
- OCLC:
- 1570330307
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000344445
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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