Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern : architecture and the Black American middle class / Jacqueline Taylor.

Main entry:

Taylor, Jacqueline (Architectural historian), author.

Title & Author:

Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern : architecture and the Black American middle class / Jacqueline Taylor.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

285 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Building -- Biography -- Modernizing Black education and employment opportunities -- Modern aesthetic theories, Africa and the new negro woman -- Utopian visions.

Summary:

"This book presents the story of Amaza Lee Meredith (1895-1984), a little-known black woman architect, artist and educator born into the Jim Crow South. Her life and work bridge national boundaries to disrupt our understandings of the Great Migration, expand the reach of the well-documented Harlem Renaissance, and reveal the importance of architecture as a force in New Negro identity and Black middle-class self and group formation"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262048347 (hardcover)
0262048345 (hardcover)

Subject:

Meredith, Amaza Lee, 1895-1984.
Azurest South (Ettrick, Va.)
African American architects Biography.
African American women architects Biography.
International style (Architecture) Virginia Ettrick.
Architectes noirs américains Biographies.
African American architects
Buildings
International style (Architecture)
Ettrick (Va.) Buildings, structures, etc.

Form/genre:

Biographies

Added entries:

Meredith, Amaza Lee, 1895-1984.

Architecture and the Black American middle class

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319325
Call No.: 319325
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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