Signs of the times
Subtitle: the visual politics of Jim Crow
By: Elizabeth Abel.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520261174; 9780520261839
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Jim Crow's cultural turns; title: American graffiti : the social life of Jim Crow signs; title: The signs of race in the language of photography; title: Cultural memory and the conditions of visibility : the circulation of Jim Crow photographs; title: Restroom doors and drinking fountains : perspective, mobility, and the fluid grounds of race and gender; title: The eyeball and the wall : eating, seeing, and the nation; title: Double take : photography, cinema, and the segregated theater; title: Upside down and inside out : camera work, spectatorship, and the chronotope of the colored balcony; title: Remaking racial signs : activism and photography in the theater of the sit-ins; title: Afterword: Contemporary turns.