Backwards Modernity: The Crisis , Miscellaneity, and the Legacy of Slavery

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)101-120
Number of pages20
JournalJournal of Modern Periodical Studies
Volume15
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2024

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This article looks at the Crisis’s intervention in the periodical modernity of the 1910s in the United States. While the magazine modeled itself on white periodicals of the period, it also clearly stands out. Instead of focusing on W. E. B. Du Bois’s role as an editor, this article foregrounds the collective principle of miscellaneity and the ways in which this traditional form changes in its use in the Crisis. The Crisis refracts the multiplicity of modern experiences marred by the specters of a past that is not really over but largely unacknowledged—a backwards modernity.

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    backwardness, miscellany, modernity, the Crisis, the Ledger

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Backwards Modernity: The Crisis , Miscellaneity, and the Legacy of Slavery. / Mayer, Ruth.
In: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 15.07.2024, p. 101-120.

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Mayer R. Backwards Modernity: The Crisis , Miscellaneity, and the Legacy of Slavery. Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 2024 Jul 15;15(1):101-120. doi: 10.5325/jmodeperistud.15.1.0101
Mayer, Ruth. / Backwards Modernity : The Crisis , Miscellaneity, and the Legacy of Slavery. In: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 2024 ; Vol. 15, No. 1. pp. 101-120.
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