{"product_id":"jim-crow-modernism-hardcover","title":"Jim Crow Modernism - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam McKible\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKeith Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"problem of the twentieth century\" was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as \"the color line\" a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that promulgated legal segregation, cultural separation, and racial antagonism in the US from the end of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era. A more familiar name, borrowed from the popular tradition of blackface minstrelsy, personified this elusive but ever-present racial regime: Jim Crow. Taking as its starting point the contemporaneity of the Jim Crow era and the modernist era in art and culture, \u003cem\u003eJim Crow Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e explores how these phenomena informed one another, and how artists and thinkers on both sides of the color line worked in and against the \"separate but equal\" landscape and the organizing logic of Jim Crow. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of new essays by prominent scholars in several fields-from American literary studies to film, media, art history, politics, and performance-provides a broad and deep analysis of this vital aspect of modern cultural history. Contributors address well known modernist figures like T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Wallace Thurman, as well as many others, from the Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay to the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi to the Afro-Latino writer Piri Thomas, whose peripatetic lives and careers initiated them into far-ranging traditions and contexts. At the same time, \u003cem\u003eJim Crow Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e reaches well beyond the segregated US South to examine national and global spaces, networks, and migrations, from New York and Los Angeles to the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and Asia.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam McKible, Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, teaches American and African American literature. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCirculating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity \u003c\/em\u003e(2024) and \u003cem\u003eThe Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York \u003c\/em\u003e(2002). He edited and introduced Edward Christopher Williams's \u003cem\u003eWhen Washington Was in Vogue \u003c\/em\u003e(2004), a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance. He is also co-editor of a special issue of \u003cem\u003eModernism\/modernity \u003c\/em\u003edevoted to the Harlem Renaissance (2013) and of the collection, \u003cem\u003e Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches\u003c\/em\u003e (2005). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Jackson, James G. Watson Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, is a cultural historian of the modern and contemporary United States. He has written \u003cem\u003eFade In, Crossroads: A History of the Southern Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003eSeeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), and he has published scholarship in such journals as \u003cem\u003eModernism\/modernity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSouthern Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/em\u003e. His editorial work includes special issues of \u003cem\u003eThe James Baldwin Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Faulkner Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Global South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeith Clark is Distinguished University Professor, Professor of English, and affiliate faculty in the African and African American Studies program at George Mason University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Manhood in James Baldwin\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eErnest J. Gaines and August Wilson\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eThe Radical Fiction of Ann Petry \u003c\/em\u003e(2013), and\u003cem\u003e Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers \u003c\/em\u003e(2020). His essays have in appeared in\u003cem\u003e African American Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison.\u003c\/em\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.27 x 9.52 x 6.47 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48395855200505,"sku":"9780197699690","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QMb5LUlAKt9780197699690.webp?v=1778619219","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/jim-crow-modernism-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}