Jim Crow networks : African American periodical cultures /

Jim Crow networks : African American periodical cultures /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dahn, Eurie, author.
Imprint:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021] ©2021
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in print culture and the history of the book Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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. African American newspapers. African American periodicals. African Americans and mass media. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. Racism. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13457366

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ISBN:	9781613767757 1613767757 9781625345257 1625345259 9781625345264 1625345267
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record
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"--
Other form:	Print version: 9781625345257 1625345259

Table of 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