Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R020744 Ned. Fotomuseum $T ABEL.E 2010
TitleSigns of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow
Author
Place of publicationBerkeley
PublisherUniv. of California Press
Year of publication2010
Pagination411 p.
Illustrationsb&w
Dimensions23 x 16 p.
MaterialTekstboek
Document TypeBook
ISBN97805202611749780520261839
External document
Bibliographic NotesIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Abstract
We cite from the COVER:
"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 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."
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CONTENTS:
Introduction: Jim Crow's cultural turns --
PART I. INSCRIPTIONS
1. American graffiti : the social life of Jim Crow signs --
2. The signs of race in the language of photography --
3. Cultural memory and the conditions of visibility : the circulation of Jim Crow photographs --
PART II. RACE AND SPACE
4. Restroom doors and drinking fountains : perspective, mobility, and the fluid grounds of race and gender --
5. The eyeball and the wall : eating, seeing, and the nation --
PART III. STILL AND MOTION PICTURES
6. Double take : photography, cinema, and the segregated theater --
7. Upside down and inside out : camera work, spectatorship, and the chronotope of the colored balcony --
PART IV. DISMANTLING JIM CROW
8.Remaking racial signs : activism and photography in the theater of the sit-ins --
Afterword: Contemporary turns..
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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 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."
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CONTENTS:
Introduction: Jim Crow's cultural turns --
PART I. INSCRIPTIONS
1. American graffiti : the social life of Jim Crow signs --
2. The signs of race in the language of photography --
3. Cultural memory and the conditions of visibility : the circulation of Jim Crow photographs --
PART II. RACE AND SPACE
4. Restroom doors and drinking fountains : perspective, mobility, and the fluid grounds of race and gender --
5. The eyeball and the wall : eating, seeing, and the nation --
PART III. STILL AND MOTION PICTURES
6. Double take : photography, cinema, and the segregated theater --
7. Upside down and inside out : camera work, spectatorship, and the chronotope of the colored balcony --
PART IV. DISMANTLING JIM CROW
8.Remaking racial signs : activism and photography in the theater of the sit-ins --
Afterword: Contemporary turns..
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For facsimile view of List of Illustrations please click URL
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| Copy number | R020744 |
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| Shelf mark | $T ABEL.E 2010 |