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Author:

Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

[ii], xx, 391 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Visual communication--Southern States--History--20th century.
Signs and signboards--Southern States--History--20th century.
Photography--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Racism in popular culture--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--P. [i] of preliminary pages.

ISBN:

0520261836 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520261839 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520261178 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780520261174 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)354895032

LCCN:

2009020570

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)