Mixed Media

The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration

John Ott (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2026
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41758-8 (ISBN)

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Mixed Media investigates Black and white artists' efforts toward racial integration, from the infamous 1931 Scottsboro Boys trial until Brown v. Board'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.

John Ott is author of Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California and coauthor of Muybridge and Mobility.

Contents

Introduction
1. "The Whites Do Rule": The New Deal Imagines Racial Mixing
2. "The Strongest Social Weapons": The Visual Cultures of Racial Unity on the Left
3. "Graphic Consciousness": The CIO's Visual Cultures of Interracial Solidarity
4. Battle Station MoMA: Jacob Lawrence Desegregates the Armed Forces and the Art World
5. Formal Unity: Black Abstractionists and Integration at Mid-Century
Conclusion: "Sidetracked"

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.2.2026
Zusatzinfo	108 color images
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-41758-5 / 0520417585
ISBN-13	978-0-520-41758-8 / 9780520417588
Zustand	Neuware