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Studies in print culture and the history of the book

Studies in print culture and the history of the book.

JSTOR DDA.

Summary

"Scholars have paid relatively little attention to the highbrow, middlebrow, and popular periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era-publications such as the Chicago Defender, the Crisis, Ebony, and the Half-Century Magazine. Jim Crow Networks considers how these magazines and newspapers, and their authors, readers, advertisers, and editors worked as part of larger networks of activists and thinkers to advance racial uplift and resist racism during the first half of the twentieth century. As Eurie Dahn demonstrates, authors like James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Jean Toomer wrote in the context of interracial and black periodical networks, which shaped the literature they produced and their concerns about racial violence. This original study also explores the overlooked intersections between the black press and modernist and Harlem Renaissance texts, and highlights key sites where readers and writers worked toward bottom-up sociopolitical changes during a period of legalized segregation"-- Provided by publisher

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Middlebrow networks : James Weldon Johnson and the Half-Century Magazine -- Affective networks : Nella Larsen and the Chicago Defender -- Readerly networks : William Faulkner's magazine publics -- Global networks : Cane in the magazines -- Conclusion: Media networks and activism

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Print version record

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JSTOR

Subject

African American periodicals -- History -- 20th century.

African American newspapers -- History -- 20th century.

American literature -- African American authors -- Publishing -- History.

African Americans and mass media.

African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Racism -- United States.

Périodiques noirs américains -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.

Journaux noirs américains -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.

Noirs américains et médias.

Racisme -- États-Unis.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.

African American newspapers. (OCoLC)fst00799278

African American periodicals. (OCoLC)fst00799293

African Americans and mass media. (OCoLC)fst00799719

African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00799632

Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616

United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Other Form:

Print version: 9781625345257 1625345259 (DLC) 2020019221 (OCoLC)1153341179

ISBN

9781613767757 (electronic bk.)

1613767757 (electronic bk.)

9781625345257 (hardcover)

1625345259 (hardcover)

9781625345264 (paperback)

1625345267 (paperback)