Signs of the times the visual politics of Jim Crow / Elizabeth Abel.
| Author/creator | Abel, Elizabeth, 1945- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | 1 online resource (xx, 391 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Signs of the times Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. 9780520261174 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021696649 |
| ISBN | 9780520945869 ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |