Listen "Adam McKible on his book, 'Circulating Jim Crow'"
Episode Synopsis
Adam McKible is an associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He grew up in Newburgh and moved to NYC, where he met his wife Julie and started a family before moving back to the area. "We spawned then swam upstream," he says. Adam's new book, "Circulating Jim Crow," examines how The Saturday Evening Post advanced a racist ideology that supressed Black modernity through dialect fiction authored by white writers. In our interview, Adam talks about his research, the major themes of this book, and the freakish popularity of black minstrelsy in the first half of the 20th century (including in Beacon). Photo credit: David Sampliner
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