Signs of the times [[electronic resource] ] : the visual politics of Jim Crow / / Elizabeth Abel |
Autore | Abel Elizabeth <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.800975 |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Segregation - Southern States - History - 20th century
Visual communication - Southern States - History - 20th century Signs and signboards - Southern States - History - 20th century Photography - Social aspects - Southern States - History - 20th century Racism in popular culture - Southern States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
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 |
ISBN |
1-283-27721-2
9786613277213 0-520-94586-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791870403321 |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow / / Elizabeth Abel |
Autore | Abel Elizabeth <1945-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.800975 |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Segregation - Southern States - History - 20th century
Visual communication - Southern States - History - 20th century Signs and signboards - Southern States - History - 20th century Photography - Social aspects - Southern States - History - 20th century Racism in popular culture - Southern States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
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 |
ISBN |
1-283-27721-2
9786613277213 0-520-94586-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819513803321 |
Abel Elizabeth <1945->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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