LEADER 04136nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910458975003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-27721-2 010 $a9786613277213 010 $a0-520-94586-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520945869 035 $a(CKB)2560000000060252 035 $a(EBL)656670 035 $a(OCoLC)704258051 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000473150 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11322181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473150 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10456086 035 $a(PQKB)10667218 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055947 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC656670 035 $a(DE-B1597)520635 035 $a(OCoLC)705945389 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520945869 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL656670 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448571 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327721 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000060252 100 $a20090519d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSigns of the times$b[electronic resource] $ethe visual politics of Jim Crow /$fElizabeth Abel 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (415 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26183-6 311 $a0-520-26117-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Jim Crow's Cultural Turns --$t1. American Graffiti: The Social Life of Jim Crow Signs --$t2. The Signs of Race in the Language of Photography --$t3. Cultural Memory and the Conditions of Visibility: The Circulation of Jim Crow Photographs --$t4. Restroom Doors and Drinking Fountains: Perspective, Mobility, and the Fluid Grounds of Race and Gender --$t5. The Eyeball and the Wall: Eating, Seeing, and the Nation --$t6. Double Take: Photography, Cinema, and the Segregated Theater --$t7. Upside Down and Inside Out: Camera Work, Spectatorship, and the Chronotope of the Colored Balcony --$t8. Remaking Racial Signs: Activism and Photography in the Theater of the Sit-Ins --$tAfterword: Contemporary Turns --$tNotes --$tSelect bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aSigns 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. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSegregation$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aVisual communication$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSigns and signboards$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPhotography$xSocial aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRacism in popular culture$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSegregation$xHistory 615 0$aVisual communication$xHistory 615 0$aSigns and signboards$xHistory 615 0$aPhotography$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aRacism in popular culture$xHistory 676 $a305.800975 700 $aAbel$b Elizabeth$f1945-$0710964 712 02$aGeorge Gund Foundation. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458975003321 996 $aSigns of the times$92452486 997 $aUNINA