Road Through Midnight - A Civil Rights Memorial (Hardcover)

At first glance, Jessica Ingram's landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of African Americans-activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers-were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. These images are interspersed with oral histories from victims' families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera. With Road Through Midnight, the result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork, Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance and transform the way we regard both what has happened and what's happening now-as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	Jessica Ingram
Dimensions:	279 x 216 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-5423-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Special kinds of photography > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4696-5423-7
Barcode:	9781469654232

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