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

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Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 391 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520945869
0520945867
9786613277213
6613277215

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Signs of the timesDDC classification:

305.800975 22

LOC classification:

E185.61

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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.Summary: 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.

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"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--P.1 of Prelim. pgs.

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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.

English.

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