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

• Author: Abel, Elizabeth [1945-..]
• Subjects: African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Southern States -- 20th century;
  Visual communication -- History -- Southern States -- 20th century;
  Signs and signboards -- History -- Southern States -- 20th century;
  Photography -- Social aspects -- History -- Southern States -- 20th century;
  Racism in popular culture -- History -- Southern States -- 20th century;
  Noirs américains -- Ségrégation -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle;
  Communication visuelle -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle;
  Signaux et signalisation -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle;
  Photographie -- Aspect social -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle;
  Racisme dans la culture populaire -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle;
  États-Unis -- Relations interethniques -- 20e siècle;
  Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
• Description: "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies." P.1 des pages prelim.
  Bibliogr. p. 357-378. Notes bibliogr. Index
  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
  
• Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, cop. 2010
  
• Creation Date: cop. 2010
  
• Format: 1 vol. (XX-391 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 23 cm
  
• Language: English