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Title: Signs of the Times
Condition: New
Description: "Signs 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 1960s 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.
Author: Elizabeth Abel
Format: Paperback
Subtitle: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow
ISBN-10: 0520261836
EAN: 9780520261839
ISBN: 9780520261839
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Genre: Law & Politics
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date: 05/06/2010
Language: English
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 771g
Topic: Social Sciences, Language & Reference, Society & Culture
Release Year: 2010

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