About the book
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 activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. Images of these places 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 transforms 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.
Editions of Road Through Midnight
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781469654232
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469655888
- EBook
- ISBN 9798890855435
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469654249
- PDF
- ISBN 9798890855428
Read an Excerpt
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 activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. Images of these places 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 transforms 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Road Through Midnight about?
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 activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. Images of these places 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 transforms 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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Road Through Midnight?
The Arts > Photography and photographs > Photographs: collections
Where can I read a sample of Road Through Midnight?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781469654232
How long is Road Through Midnight and how many pages does it have?
Road Through Midnight has 240 page(s)
Is Road Through Midnight part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Road Through Midnight?
Jessica Ingram
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Road Through Midnight is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469654232) and ebook(ISBN 9781469655888) and ebook(ISBN 9798890855435) and ebook(ISBN 9781469654249) and pdf(ISBN 9798890855428)
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