Title & Author:

Sites of memory : perspectives on architecture and race / Craig Evan Barton, editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2001.

Description:

xv, 193 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Duality & invisibility : race and memory in the urbanism of the American South / Craig Evan Barton -- Between rooms 307 : spaces of memory at the National Civil Rights Museum / Mabel O. Wilson -- Uncovering places of memory : walking tours of Manhattan / Felecia Davis -- Miami's colored-over segregation : segregation, Interstate 95 and Miami's African-American legends / Nathaniel Q. Belcher -- Negotiated space : the Black college campus as a cultural record of postbellum America / Kenrick Ian Grandison -- Marking Brown v. Board of Education : memorializing separate and unequal spaces / Amy Weisser -- Accommodation, resistance, and appropriation in African-American building / Bradford Grant -- body.memory.map : a narrative in 12 segments / Lesley Naa Norle Lokko -- Sonorous urbanism : spatial implications of the AACM / David P. Brown -- Waiting on the dawn at Demus : reflections on historic landscape documentation / La Barbara James Wigfall -- African-American art and architecture : a theology of life, death, and transformation / Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez -- Storing memories in the yard : remaking Poplar Street, the shifting Black cultural landscape / Walter J. Hood Jr., Mellissa Erikson.
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Summary:

"The issue of race in architecture is a complicated and often divisive one. Traditional methods of architectural history and theory tend to attribute a city's civic and cultural identity to the dominant culture. Ignored are more marginal cultures without a tradition of public building, often preventing a complete understanding of the city and the forces that shape it." "These essays explore the historic and contemporary effects of race upon the development of the built environment, and examine the myths and realities of America's racial landscapes. Its multi-disciplinary approach identifies and interprets the black cultural landscape, examining its visual, spatial, and ideological dimensions." "Contributors to this collection include Nathanial Belcher, Felicia Davis, Sheryl Tucker de Vasquez, K. Ian Grandison, Bradford Grant, Walter Hood, and Mabel O. Wilson."--Jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

156898233X (alk. paper)
9781568982335 (alk. paper)

Subject:

African Americans Social life and customs.
African Americans Social conditions.
African American architecture.
City and town life United States.
Noirs américains Mœurs et coutumes.
Noirs américains Conditions sociales.
Architecture noire américaine.
Vie urbaine États-Unis.
City and town life.
Schwarze
Soziale Situation
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Noirs américains États-Unis Conditions sociales.
Architecture Aspect social États-Unis.
United States History, Local.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

Local history.

Added entries:

Barton, Craig Evan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221502
Call No.: E185.86 .S5 2001
Status: Available