Road Through Midnight by Jessica Ingram

Road Through Midnight by Jessica Ingram

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.

Jessica Ingram is assistant professor of art at Florida State University.

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ISBN 13	9781469654232
ISBN 10	1469654237
Title	Road Through Midnight
Author	Jessica Ingram
Series	Documentary Arts And Culture Published In Association With The Center For Documentary Studies At Duke University
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
Year published	2020-01-30
Number of pages	240
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