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

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.
General note"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--P.1 of Prelim. pgs.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Signs of the times Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. 9780520261174 (cloth : alk. paper)
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