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

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xx, 391 p.) 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 Signs of the Times traces 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 spaces and contexts that shifted the grounds of race from the somatic to the social sphere This work traces the career of Jim Crow signs from their intellectual and political origins in the second half of the 19th century through their dismantling by civil rights activists in the 1960s and '70s Notes "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--P.1 of Prelim. pgs Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- General. African Americans -- Segregation Photography -- Social aspects Race relations Racism in popular culture Signs and signboards Visual communication SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021696649 ISBN 9780520945869 0520945867 9786613277213 6613277215

  Permalink