| Contents |
Introduction: Jim Crow's cultural turns -- American graffiti : the social life of Jim Crow signs -- The signs of race in the language of photography -- Cultural memory and the conditions of visibility : the circulation of Jim Crow photographs -- Restroom doors and drinking fountains : perspective, mobility, and the fluid grounds of race and gender -- The eyeball and the wall : eating, seeing, and the nation -- Double take : photography, cinema, and the segregated theater -- Upside down and inside out : camera work, spectatorship, and the chronotope of the colored balcony -- Remaking racial signs : activism and photography in the theater of the sit-ins -- Afterword: Contemporary turns. |
| General note | "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--P.1 of Prelim. pgs. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009020570 |
| ISBN | 9780520261174 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520261178 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520261839 (paper : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520261836 (paper : alk. paper) |
