Circulating Jim Crow - The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity

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

List 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

About the author

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).

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.

Product details

• Authors: Adam McKible, McKible Adam
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2024
• EAN: 9780231212649
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21264-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Publishing industry and journalism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people, reference; literary criticism