Signs of the times [electronic resource] : the visual politics of Jim Crow / Elizabeth Abel.
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Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2010.
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Variant Title: |
Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.