Signs of the times the visual politics of Jim Crow

Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow / Elizabeth Abel.

Author/creator	Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press,
Description	xx, 391 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	African Americans--Segregation --Southern States --History --20th century. Visual communication--Southern States --History --20th century. Signs and signboards--Southern States --History --20th century. Photography--Social aspects --Southern States --History --20th century. Racism in popular culture--Southern States --History --20th century. Southern States--Race relations --History --20th century.

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.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009020570
ISBN	9780520261174 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780520261839 (paper : alk. paper)

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