Signs of the Times The Visual Politics of Jim Crow

Name: Signs of the Times The Visual Politics of Jim Crow
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ISBN: 9780520261839

ISBN-10: 0520261836

ISBN-13: 9780520261839

Edition: 2010

Authors: Elizabeth Abel

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Signs of the Timestraces 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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction: Jim Crow's Cultural Turns



Inscriptions



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



Race and Space



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



Still and Motion Pictures



Double Take: Photography, Cinema, and the Segregated Theater



Upside Down and Inside Out: Camera Work, Spectatorship, and the Chronotope of the Colored Balcony



Dismantling Jim Crow



Remaking Racial Signs: Activism and Photography in the Theater of the Sit-Ins


Afterword: Contemporary Turns


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index