{"product_id":"circulating-jim-crow-the-saturday-evening-post-and-the-war-against-black-modernity-paperback","title":"Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam McKible\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early twentieth century, the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e was perhaps the most popular and influential magazine in the United States, establishing literary reputations and shaping American culture. In the popular imagination, it is best remembered for Norman Rockwell's covers, which nostalgically depicted a wholesome and idyllic American way of life. But beneath those covers lurked a more troubling reality. Under the direction of its longtime editor, George Horace Lorimer, the magazine helped justify racism and white supremacy. It published works by white authors that made heavy use of paternalistic tropes and demeaning humor, portraying Jim Crow segregation and violence as simple common sense. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCirculating Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e used stereotypical dialect fiction to promulgate white supremacist ideology and dismiss Black achievements, citizenship, and humanity. Adam McKible tells the story of Lorimer's rise to prominence and examines the white authors who provided the editor and his readers with the caricatures they craved. He also explores how Black writers of the Harlem Renaissance pushed back against the \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e and its commodified racism. McKible places the erstwhile household names who wrote for the magazine in conversation with figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ann Petry, W. E. B. Du Bois, and William Faulkner. Revealing the role of the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post \u003c\/i\u003ein normalizing racism for millions of readers, this book also offers a new understanding of how Black writers challenged Jim Crow ideology.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam McKible is associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), editor of Edward Christopher Williams's \u003ci\u003eWhen Washington Was in Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLittle Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47405218562226,"sku":"9780231212656","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/2c3d4ce015297c89ef89b1af22efb998.webp?v=1778179384","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/circulating-jim-crow-the-saturday-evening-post-and-the-war-against-black-modernity-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}