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Black History Month Book List
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Below is a list of recommended titles gathered from a variety of sources, including Aggregate Black Lives Matter, the Architectural League NY, and the Space Race Reading List to add to the Reading Room. Please add your suggestions below.
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AbdouMaliq, Simone, For a City Yet to Come: Changing African Lives in Four African Cities. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
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AbdouMaliq, Simone with Edgar Pieterse, New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times
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Adjaye, David, David Adjaye – Works 1995-2007: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings, Thames and Hudson, 2020.
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Adjaye, David and Allison, Peter, Adjaye: Africa: Architecture; Compact Edition, Thames and Hudson, 2016.
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Ahmed, Sara, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, Duke University Press, 2012.
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Alkalimat, Abdul, Romi Crawford, Rebecca Zorach (eds.), The Wall of Respect. Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2016).
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Anderson, Sean and Wilson, Mabel O., Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, Museum of Modern Art, 2021.
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Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021).
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Barton, Craig ed., Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001)
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Bell, Carla Jackson, ed. Space Unveiled: Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio. New York: Routledge, 2014
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Berry, Anne H. and Collie, Kareem, The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Refelction, Allworth, 2022.
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Brown, Adrienne. The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race. John Hopkins University Press, 2017.
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Brown, David and William Williams. Row: Trajectories Through the Shotgun House. Rice School of Architecture, 2004.
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Brown, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Duke University Press, 2015.
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Cheng, Anne Anlin, Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface (Oxford University Press, 2010
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Cheng, Irene, Charles L. Davis II and Mable O. Wilson, ed. Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.
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Cole, Desmond, The Skin We’re In, Anchor Canada, 2022.
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Coles, Robert Traynham, Architecture + Advocacy, Buffalo Arts Publishing, 2016
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Cooke, Sekou, Hip-Hop Architecutre: History/Theory/Practice, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
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Darrell Wayne Fields, Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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Davis, Charles. Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style, 1860-1945. University of Pittsburgh, 2019.
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Dowdell, Kimberly, “Racism is built into US Cities,” Fast Company, June 2020
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Fields, Darell Wayne. Architecture in Black. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2000.
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Finney, Carolyn. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. UNC Press, 2014.
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Golden, Thelma ed, Harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor (Studio Museum in Harlem, 2004)
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Gooden, Mario, Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2016)
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Harris, Dianne, Little White Houses (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
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Hogrefe, Jeffrey, In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism, Lars Muller, 2020
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Hood, Walter and Tada, Grace Mitchell, Black Landscapes Matter, University of Virginia Press, 2020
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Bell hooks, Art on My Mind; Visual Politics, New York: The New Press, 1995.
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Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an Antiracist. One World, 2019
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Kéré, Francis, Radically Simple, Hatje Cantz, 2017
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Lepig, Andreas, Afritecture, Building Social Change, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014
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Lokko, Lesley, White Papers Black Marks: Architecture, Race, Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
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Mbembe, Achille, On the Postcolony, University of California Press, 2001
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McKittrick, Katherine. Dear Science and Other Stories. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
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McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
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Mitchell, Melvin. The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and Black Power. New York: Writers Advantage, 2003.
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Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Harvard University Press, 1992.
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Scott, Kitty, Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2018
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Shabazz, Rashad. Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement And Black Masculinity In Chicago. Urbana, [Illinois]: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
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Sutton, Sharon E. Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance: The Places, Power, and Poetry of a Sustainable Society (Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1996)
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Sutton, Sharon Egretta. When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story About Race in America’s Cities and Universities https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823276127/when-ivory-towers-were-black/. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017
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Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, Race for Profit (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
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Travis, Jack. African-American Architects in Current Practice. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992
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Walcott, Rinaldo, On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition, Biblioasis, 2021.
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Wellington, Paul A. Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community. Paul Wellington, 2019
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Wilson, Mabel O., Begin with the Past: Building the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Wilson, Mabel. Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums. xvi, 442 p. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012
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Wilkins, Craig, Diversity Among Architects: From Margin to Center (Routledge, 2016)
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Wilkins, Craig L., The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
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Yussof, Kathryn, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, University of Minnesota Press, 2018
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Brand, Dionne, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes on Belonging, Penguin Random House, 2001
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Maynard, Robyn, Policing Black Lives State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, Ferwood Publishing, 2017
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WAI Think Thank, A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education, Loudreaders, 2020
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