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

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Main Author: Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010], ©2010.
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.
Physical Description:xx, 391 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
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.