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Signs of the times the visual politics of Jim Crow
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520945869 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0520945867 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780520261174 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0520261178 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780520261839 (pbk : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0520261836 (pbk : alk. paper)
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1 online resource ([ii], xx, 391 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."--P. [i] of preliminary pages. Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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