Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical Cultures

by Eurie Dahn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625345267
• ISBN13: 9781625345264
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"