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Author Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-

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

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ii unnumbered pages, xx, 391 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--Page [i] of preliminary pages.
Bibliography 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.
Summary This work traces the career of Jim Crow signs from their intellectual and political origins in the second half of the 19th century through their dismantling by civil rights activists in the 1960s and '70s.
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Subject African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Segregation.
Southern States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Visual communication -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Visual communication.
Signs and signboards -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Signs and signboards.
Photography -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Photography -- Social aspects.
Racism in popular culture -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Racism in popular culture.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Race relations.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Abel, Elizabeth, 1945- Signs of the times. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520261174 (DLC) 2009020570 (OCoLC)354895032
ISBN 9780520945869 (electronic book)
0520945867 (electronic book)
1283277212
9781283277211
9780520261174 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520261178 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520261839 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520261836 (paperback ; alkaline paper)