Title & Author:

In search of African American space : redressing racism / edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, with Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone ; [authors, Sara Caples and eleven others].

Publication:

Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2020]
©2020

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps (some color), plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-245) and index.
Constellations of freedom: assembly, reflection, and repose / Tina M. Campt -- Rhizomatic excerpts / Scott Ruff -- Spaces of refuge and delight / Jeffrey Hogrefe -- The terrain of politics: race, space, and vernacular citizenship / Ann S. Holder -- Black visuality in antebellum New York / Radiclani Clytus -- Cultural translations and tropes of African American space / Scott Ruff -- Diasporic monuments and the translation of context / Rodney Leon -- Weeksville revisited -- Heritage center landscape / Elizabeth Kennedy -- Heritage Center building / Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson -- Embodied silences: three meditations on maps, museums, and monuments / J. Yolande Daniels -- Walking the geography of racism / Walis Johnson -- Seeking Sally Hemings / Marisa Williamson.

Summary:

"If African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery, how does architecture relate to that experience? African Americans have claimed space in unexpected locations - often in opposition to architecture as a Eurocentric discipline that has served to regulate and exclude them. In Search of African American Space examines both historical record and personal and collective memory to uncover these instances. African American space can be creative and aspirational, taking the form of speech and performance that reflects its fleeting nature. This anthology of essays from contemporary architects, historians and artists presents a broad range of knowledge and practices that evoke consciousness of this form of space making in the afterlife of slavery."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783037786338 (paperback)
3037786337 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture and race.
Space (Architecture) Social aspects.
Space (Architecture) in art.
African Americans in art.
African diaspora in art.
Slavery in art.
Racism in art.
Architecture et race.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social.
Espace (Architecture) dans l'art.
Noirs américains dans l'art.
Africains Pays étrangers, dans l'art.
Racisme dans l'art.

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays
Essais.

Added entries:

Hogrefe, Jeffrey, editor.
Ruff, Scott, 1969- editor.
Eastman, Carrie, editor.
Simone, Ashley, editor.
Caples, Sara, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308683
Call No.: BIB 254035
Status: Available