{"product_id":"mixed-media-the-visual-cultures-of-racial-integration-paperback","title":"Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Ott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMixed Media\u003c\/i\u003e investigates Black and white artists' efforts toward racial integration, from the infamous 1931 Scottsboro Boys trial until \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board\u003c\/i\u003e's 1954 desegregation of public schools. Each chapter attends to a distinctive visual ecology fostered by institutions and individuals committed to desegregation to varying degrees, including the nationwide public art initiatives of the New Deal, the imagery and cultural programs of the multiracial Popular Front, graphics produced for CIO-member labor unions, Jacob Lawrence's war paintings and other visual propaganda of the armed forces, and the struggle of New York abstract painters of African descent to navigate the criticism, museums, and markets of the mainstream art world. Together, they explore the divergent approaches to conceptualizing and implementing racial integration along the liberal-radical axis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew historians of American art have the archival skills or curiosity to uncover the trove of primary sources--from murals to magazines, pamphlets to posters--upon which John Ott builds his arguments. The product of this extraordinary research, \u003ci\u003eMixed Media\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light not only on the interrelations of popular visual culture and the fine arts, but also on the deep connections that emerged between art by African Americans and social discourses on (de)segregation in the 1930s and 1940s.--Tanya Sheehan, author of \u003ci\u003eStudy in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Ott provides a new cosmology for understanding the possibilities for and limitations on visual art's ability to make social change in twentieth-century America. Through examples from federally funded programs, Popular Front organizations, and labor unions, \u003ci\u003eMixed Media \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a well-researched analysis of the efforts to advance and contain visions of racial integration. Looking inside and outside of the fine art world, Ott shows how artists argued that national unity against a common enemy abroad could be achieved only through interracial unity at home.\"--Bridget R. Cooks, author of \u003ci\u003eExhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Ott\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eManufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMuybridge and Mobility\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45964204409029,"sku":"9780520417595","price":91.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/jyBj4xkFjg9780520417595.webp?v=1773618859","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/mixed-media-the-visual-cultures-of-racial-integration-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}