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Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow
- Title
- Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow / Elizabeth Abel.
- Author
- Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- xx, 391 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- African Americans > Segregation > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Photography > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Signs and signboards > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Visual communication > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century
- Racism in popular culture > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Note
- "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--P.1 of Prelim. pgs.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- IEC 10-4891
- ISBN
- 9780520261174 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520261178 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520261839 (paper : alk. paper)
- 0520261836 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009020570
- OCLC
- 354895032
- Author
- Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-
- Title
- Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow / Elizabeth Abel.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IEC 10-4891