Join us for an evening with author Adam McKible as he discusses his new book "Circulating Jim Crow"! Learn about the complex history of the Saturday Evening Post, a magazine renowned for its iconic Norman Rockwell covers but also steeped in troubling racial ideologies. Discover how the magazine's editor, George Horace Lorimer, perpetuated racism and white supremacy through its content, including stereotypical dialect fiction. Explore the courageous efforts of Black writers during the Harlem Renaissance who pushed back against the Post's harmful narratives. Don't miss this opportunity to gain new insights into America's past and the ongoing struggle against racism.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Adam McKible is associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is author of The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (2002), editor of Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue (2004), and coeditor of Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (2007).