Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow
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Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow
（George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies）
University of California Press, c2010
- : cloth
- : pbk
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"A George Gund Foundation book in African American studies."--P. [4] of cover
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-378) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780520261174
Description
"Signs of the Times" traces the career of Jim Crow signs - simplified in cultural memory to the 'colored/white' labels that demarcated the public spaces of the American South - from their intellectual and political origins in the second half of the nineteenth century through their dismantling by civil rights activists in the 1960s and '70s. In this beautifully written, meticulously researched book, Elizabeth Abel assembles a variegated archive of segregation signs and photographs that translated a set of regional practices into a national conversation about race. Abel also brilliantly investigates the semiotic system through which segregation worked to reveal how the signs functioned in particular spaces and contexts that shifted the grounds of race from the somatic to the social sphere.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Jim Crow's Cultural Turns Part I. Inscriptions 1. American Graffiti: The Social Life of Jim Crow Signs 2. The Signs of Race in the Language of Photography 3. Cultural Memory and the Conditions of Visibility: The Circulation of Jim Crow Photographs Part II. Race and Space 4. Restroom Doors and Drinking Fountains: Perspective, Mobility, and the Fluid Grounds of Race and Gender 5. The Eyeball and the Wall: Eating, Seeing, and the Nation Part III. Still and Motion Pictures 6. Double Take: Photography, Cinema, and the Segregated Theater 7. Upside Down and Inside Out: Camera Work, Spectatorship, and the Chronotope of the Colored Balcony Part IV. Dismantling Jim Crow 8. Remaking Racial Signs: Activism and Photography in the Theater of the Sit-Ins Afterword: Contemporary Turns Notes Select Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780520261839
Description
"Signs of the Times" traces the career of Jim Crow signs - simplified in cultural memory to the 'colored/white' labels that demarcated the public spaces of the American South - from their intellectual and political origins in the second half of the nineteenth century through their dismantling by civil rights activists in the 1960s and '70s. In this beautifully written, meticulously researched book, Elizabeth Abel assembles a variegated archive of segregation signs and photographs that translated a set of regional practices into a national conversation about race. Abel also brilliantly investigates the semiotic system through which segregation worked to reveal how the signs functioned in particular spaces and contexts that shifted the grounds of race from the somatic to the social sphere.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Jim Crow's Cultural Turns Part I. Inscriptions 1. American Graffiti: The Social Life of Jim Crow Signs 2. The Signs of Race in the Language of Photography 3. Cultural Memory and the Conditions of Visibility: The Circulation of Jim Crow Photographs Part II. Race and Space 4. Restroom Doors and Drinking Fountains: Perspective, Mobility, and the Fluid Grounds of Race and Gender 5. The Eyeball and the Wall: Eating, Seeing, and the Nation Part III. Still and Motion Pictures 6. Double Take: Photography, Cinema, and the Segregated Theater 7. Upside Down and Inside Out: Camera Work, Spectatorship, and the Chronotope of the Colored Balcony Part IV. Dismantling Jim Crow 8. Remaking Racial Signs: Activism and Photography in the Theater of the Sit-Ins Afterword: Contemporary Turns Notes Select Bibliography Index
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