However, as Craig L. Wilkins, a registered architect, teaches architecture and urban planning at the University of Michigan. In doing so, he reveals new possibilities for an architecture that acknowledges its current shortcomings and replies to the needs of multicultural constituencies. Craig L. Wilkins states that the discipline of architecture has a resistance to African Americans at every level, from the startlingly small number of architecture students to the paltry number of registered architects in the United States today.
Working to understand how ideologies are formed, and embedded in the built environment, transmitted, Wilkins deconstructs how the marginalization of African Americans is authorized within the field of architecture. He then outlines how activist forms of expression shape and sustain communities, fashioning an architectural theory around the site of environmental conflict constructed by hip-hop culture.
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Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity
Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of "African American architecture, " and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space. This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture.
These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora.
The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and Black Power
. The journal of blacks in higher education" seminal " architecture magazinein this long overdue book, jazz, the crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Melvin Mitchell poses the question "why haven't black architects developed a Black Architecture that complements modernist black culture that is rooted in world-class blues, hip-hop music, and other black aesthetic forms?" His provocative thesis, inspired by Harold Cruse's landmark book, aimed at Black America and her allies, exposes the roots of an eighty-year-old estrangement between black architects and Black America.
Along the way he provides interesting details about the politics of downtown development in the Marion Barry era of Washington, DC. Columbia Univ Graduate School. Another missing piece of our rich history and profound contribution to western civilization. For history buffs please put this book on your must read list.
Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago New Black Studies Series
. In particular, he investigates how the ongoing carceral effort oriented and imbued black male bodies and gender performance from the Progressive Era to the present. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, surveillance, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, policing, urban planning, Rashad Shabazz explores the myriad architectures of confinement, and incarceration.
From the start, carceral powers literally and figuratively created a prison-like environment to contain these African Americans within the so-called Black Belt on the city's South Side. Columbia Univ Graduate School. The result is an essential interdisciplinary study that highlights the racialization of space, the politics of mobility under conditions of alleged freedom, the role of containment in subordinating African Americans, and the ways black men cope with--and resist--spacial containment.
A timely response to the massive upswing in carceral forms within society, why society aimed them against African Americans, Spatializing Blackness examines how these mechanisms came to exist, and the consequences for black communities and black masculinity both historically and today.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Widely heralded as a “masterful” washington post and “essential” slate history of the modern American metropolis, state, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” William Julius Wilson.
Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods.
A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history Chicago Daily Observer, The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.
The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop Music / Culture
Wesleyan. Additionally, the book analyzes the processes within the music and culture industries through which hip hop has been amplified and disseminated from the ‘hood to international audiences. Examining rap music, along with ancillary hip hop media including radio, " "inner-city, Murray Forman analyzes hip hop culture's varying articulations of the terms "ghetto, both real and imaginary, music videos, rap press and the cinematic ‘hood genre, " and "the 'hood, " and how these spaces, are used to define individual and collective identity.
Negotiating academic, and "street" discourses, Forman assesses the dynamics between race, corporate, social space and youth. Spatializing blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago.
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
Columbia Univ Graduate School. Du bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of "the color line. From advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery, these prophetic infographics—beautiful in design and powerful in content— make visible a wide spectrum of black experience.
W. Du bois's data portraits collects the complete set of graphics in full color for the first time, making their insights and innovations available to a contemporary imagination. E.
Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
Analyzing diverse literatures and material geographies, McKittrick reveals how human geographies are a result of racialized connections, and how spaces that are fraught with limitation are underacknowledged but meaningful sites of political opposition. Katherine mckittrick is assistant professor of women’s studies at Queen’s University.
Iin a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women’s geographic thought. Specifically, black canada and new france, the author addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs’s attic, as well as the conceptual spaces of feminism and Sylvia Wynter’s philosophies.
Ultimately, mckittrick argues, these complex black geographies are alterable and may provide the opportunity for social and cultural change. Wesleyan. Spatializing blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago. Columbia Univ Graduate School.
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Duke University Press. Wesleyan. In the weather, sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Spatializing blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of "the wake, " and "the weather, " Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment, " "the hold, and punishment, " "the ship, regulation, but also something in excess of them.
Formulating the wake and "wake work" as sites of artistic production, and possibility for living in diaspora, resistance, consciousness, In the Wake offers a way forward. Columbia Univ Graduate School.
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Duke University Press. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, literature, sociology, to contemporary art, Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, Browne draws from black feminist theory, and The Book of Negroes, and cultural studies to analyze texts as diverse as the methods of surveilling blackness she discusses: from the design of the eighteenth-century slave ship Brooks, biometrics, and post-9/11 airport security practices.
Surveillance, and continues to be, so much so that the surveillance of blackness has long been, Browne asserts, and bodies around racial lines, borders, is both a discursive and material practice that reifies boundaries, a social and political norm. Columbia Univ Graduate School. Wesleyan. In dark matters simone browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted.
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Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
Wesleyan. Washington, W. E. B. Mabel O. Spatializing blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago. Du bois, Ida B. Duke university Press Books. Focusing on black americans’ participation in world’s fairs, and early black grassroots museums, Emancipation expositions, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived the curatorial content―Booker T. Duke University Press.