05042nam 2201093Ia 450 991079187040332120230207232817.01-283-27721-297866132772130-520-94586-710.1525/9780520945869(CKB)2560000000060252(EBL)656670(OCoLC)704258051(SSID)ssj0000473150(PQKBManifestationID)11322181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473150(PQKBWorkID)10456086(PQKB)10667218(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055947(MiAaPQ)EBC656670(DE-B1597)520635(OCoLC)705945389(DE-B1597)9780520945869(Au-PeEL)EBL656670(CaPaEBR)ebr10448571(CaONFJC)MIL327721(EXLCZ)99256000000006025220090519d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSigns of the times[electronic resource] the visual politics of Jim Crow /Elizabeth AbelBerkeley University of California Pressc20101 online resource (415 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26183-6 0-520-26117-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexSigns 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 1960's 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.African AmericansSegregationSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryVisual communicationSouthern StatesHistory20th centurySigns and signboardsSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryPhotographySocial aspectsSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryRacism in popular cultureSouthern StatesHistory20th centurySouthern StatesRace relationsHistory20th century1960s.1970s.19th century.african americans.america.american culture.american south.civil rights activists.cultural history.cultural memory.historians.jim crow laws.jim crow signs.nonfiction.political history.political tension.public spaces.racial issues.racism.regional history.regional practices.retrospective.segregation signs.semiotics.social history.social sphere.united states.us history.visual communication.visual politics.African AmericansSegregationHistoryVisual communicationHistorySigns and signboardsHistoryPhotographySocial aspectsHistoryRacism in popular cultureHistory305.800975Abel Elizabeth1945-710964George Gund Foundation.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791870403321Signs of the times3697189UNINA