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Signs of the times the visual politics of Jim Crow

Title: Signs of the times [electronic resource] : the visual politics of Jim Crow / Elizabeth Abel.
Author: Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

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Description

1 online resource (xx, 391 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Signs of the times (Online)

Alternative Title

Signs of the times (Online)

Subject

African Americans > Segregation > History > Southern States > 20th century
Visual communication > Southern States > History > 20th century
Signs and signboards > Southern States > History > 20th century
Photography > Social aspects > History > Southern States > 20th century
Racism in popular culture > Southern States > History > 20th century
Southern States > Race relations > 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.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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