Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow

by Elizabeth Abel

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520261836

ISBN13:9780520261839

Release Date:May 2010

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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