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

Author/creator Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxx, 391 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009020570
ISBN9780520261174 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520261178 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520261839 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN0520261836 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E185.61 .A614 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold