Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Jim Crow's Cultural Turns -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 8. Remaking Racial Signs: Activism and Photography in the Theater of the Sit-Ins -- Afterword: Contemporary Turns -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index |