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  • The Power of Collective Wisdom

    And the Trap of Collective Folly

    by Alan Briskin, Sheryl Erikson, John Ott, Tom Callanan ...
    "An exceptional work challenging leaders to question their assumptions about how to achieve organizational excellence . . . a new narrative for leading." —Carol Pearson, author of The Hero WithinIf we are to disentangle the extraordinary challenges that we face today in organizations, communities, and nations we must transcend our divisions and develop solutions together. But what enables us to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mixed Media

    The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration

    by John Ott ...
    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 ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Let's Draw Manga - Using Color

    by John Ott, You Kusano ...
    LET'S DRAW MANGA-USING COLOR You've got your black lines down-now what? Will you use paint or markers? Fill in with the computer or use your brushes? Just how do you mix up "skin color?" Where do all of the highlights and shadows go? What colors will you even use?! ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Muybridge and Mobility

    by Tim Cresswell, John Ott ...
    Series Book 6 - Defining Moments in Photography
    A cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge’s famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race.In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed horses in motion, proving that all four hooves leave the ground at once for a split second during full gallop. This was the beginning of Muybridge’s decades-long investigation into instantaneous ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • South of Pico

    African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

    by Kellie Jones ...
    Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and ArtforumIn South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Black Art

    A Cultural History

    by Richard J. Powell ...
    Series series World of Art
    This groundbreaking study explores the visual representations of Black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pioneering American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Jim Crow Wisdom

    Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940

    by Jonathan Scott Holloway ...
    How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond Blackface

    African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930

    Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage ...
    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American mass culture during the early twentieth century.Moving beyond the familiar territory of blackface ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Presence

    An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

    by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers ...
    Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change—how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The book ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Beautiful Jim Key

    The Lost History of the World's Smartest Horse

    by Mim E. Rivas ...
    The remarkable true saga of an exceptional animal—and the no less exceptional man who led him to greatness: "Seabiscuit had nothing on Beautiful Jim Key." — Sacramento BeeBeautiful Jim Key—the onetime ugly duckling of a scrub colt who became one of the most beloved heroes of the turn of the twentieth century—was adored not for his beauty and speed but rather for his remarkable abilities to read, ... Read more

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