"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--P.1 of Prelim. pgs.
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.
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Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow by Elizabeth Abel. ISBN 9780520261839. Published by University of California Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
