{"product_id":"circulating-jim-crow-9780231212656","title":"Circulating Jim Crow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam McKible demonstrates how the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e used stereotypical dialect fiction to promulgate white supremacist ideology and dismiss Black achievements, citizenship, and humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGripping and doggedly researched, \u003ci\u003eCirculating Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the corrosion at the underbelly of the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e. Adam McKible reveals the larger cultural and political context that made the inherently anti-Black magazine popular. Through his deft and energetic prose, McKible offers readers a fresh lens to understand the era of the New Negro Movement as a whole. -- Emily Bernard, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack in the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough meticulous research and crisp prose, \u003ci\u003eCirculating Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e greatly deepens our understanding of the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, whose success in the first half of the twentieth century depended greatly on George H. Lorimer’s campaign to define American identity as white supremacist and antiblack. McKible offers a crucial warning for our time. -- Darryl Dickson-Carr, author of \u003ci\u003eSpoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcKible reveals that when not wrapping the American way in Rockwellian nostalgia, the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e did its best to thwart Black modernity. Full of sobering detail and impassioned judgment, \u003ci\u003eCirculating Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e measures the forbidding height of the wall modern African American writing climbed and conquered. -- William J. Maxwell, author of \u003ci\u003eF.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant new book by a major scholar of American periodical culture, \u003ci\u003eCirculating Jim Crow \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the efforts to undermine black modernity at the heart of one of the most successful purveyors of nostalgic Americana. As voices for white supremacy again grow louder, McKible’s compelling analysis of the role cultural institutions play in normalizing racism and xenophobia couldn’t be timelier. -- Mark S. Morrisson, author of \u003ci\u003eModernism, Science, and Technology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. George Horace Lorimer and Rising Jim Crow\u003cbr\u003e2. Literary Aspiration and Intimate Minstrelsy\u003cbr\u003e3. Irvin S. Cobb: Making the New Negro Old Again\u003cbr\u003e4. Hugh Wiley, Edward Christopher Williams, and Black Doughboys\u003cbr\u003e5. Octavus Roy Cohen, the Midnight Motion Picture Company, and the Shadows of Jim Crow\u003cbr\u003e6. The End of the Lorimer Era\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400380096855,"sku":"9780231212656","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231212656.jpg?v=1730470551","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/circulating-jim-crow-9780231212656","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}