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Social Justice and the Built Environment

This guide provides resources for researching about and engaging with issues involving social justice and the built environment.

Blackness and the Built Environment

WHERE ARE MY PEOPLE? BLACK IN ARCHITECTURE
Why is it that Black people are less likely to choose architecture than other service professions like medicine or education? Why is it that many architecture departments have no Black faculty members? Why is it that architecture schools have difficulty attracting and retaining Black students?

Building Black by Elliot C. Mason
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781685710286
Publication Date: 2022
A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago by E. James West
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780252053313
Publication Date: 2022
African Modernism and Its Afterlives by Paul Wenzel Geissler (Editor); Nina Berre (Editor); Johan Lagae (Editor)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA1587 .A47 2022 and eBook
ISBN: 9781789384031
Publication Date: 2022
Environment, power, and justice : southern African histories by Graeme Wynn 1946- editor.; Jane Carruthers editor.; Nancy Joy Jacobs editor
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 0821447777
Publication Date: 2022
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America by Sean Anderson (Editor); Mabel O. Wilson (Editor); Robin D. G. Kelley (Preface by); Emanuel Admassu (Text by); Germane Barnes (Text by)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA738.N5 R43 2021
ISBN: 9781633451148
Publication Date: 2021
Black Landscapes Matter by Walter Hood; Grace Mitchell Tada
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks E185.86 .B52559 2020
ISBN: 9780813944852
Publication Date: 2020
In Search of African American Space by Jeffrey Hogrefe (Editor); Carrie Eastman (Editor); Scott Ruff (Editor); Ashley Simone (Editor); Tina M. Campt (Foreword by)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks N8232 .I57 2020
ISBN: 9783037786338
Publication Date: 2020
Race for Profit: how banks and the real estate industry undermined Black homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781469653662
Publication Date: 2019
A Haven and a Hell: the ghetto in black America by Lance Freeman
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780231545570
Publication Date: 2019
The Black Skyscraper by Adrienne Brown
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781421423845
Publication Date: 2017
The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race by Carl C. Anthony
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781613320389
Publication Date: 2017
The South Side: a portrait of Chicago and American segregation by Natalie Y. Moore
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks F548.9.A1 M66 2016
ISBN: 9781137280152
Publication Date: 2016
Dark Space by Mario Gooden
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA2543.R37 G66 2016
ISBN: 9781941332139
Publication Date: 2016
Building Apartheid by Nicholas Coetzer
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781317171041
Publication Date: 2016
Spatializing blackness : architectures of confinement and Black masculinity in Chicago by Rashad Shabazz
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780252097737
Publication Date: 2015
Ruffneck Constructivists by Kara Walker (Editor); Amy Sadao (Foreword by); Craig Wilkins (Text by)
Call Number: N6538.N5 R84 2014
ISBN: 9780985337742
Publication Date: 2014
Negro Building by Mabel O. Wilson
Call Number: ARCH LIB E185.53.A1 W55 2012
ISBN: 9780520268425
Publication Date: 2012
Cabin, Quarter, Plantation by Rebecca Ginsburg (Editor); Clifton Ellis (Editor)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks E443 .C325 2010
ISBN: 0300120427
Publication Date: 2010
We Shall Independent Be: African American place making and the struggle to claim space in the United States by Angel David Nieves (Editor); Leslie M. Alexander (Editor)
Call Number: ULIB E185.86 .W434 2008
ISBN: 9780870819063
Publication Date: 2008
The Aesthetics of Equity by Craig L. Wilkins
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA2543.R37 W55 2007
ISBN: 9780816646609
Publication Date: 2007
Sites of Memory by Craig E. Barton (Editor)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks E185.86 .S595 2001
ISBN: 156898233X
Publication Date: 2001
White Papers, Black Marks by Lesley Lokko (Editor)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA2543.R37 W495 2000
ISBN: 9780485004021
Publication Date: 2000
Architecture in Black by Darell Wayne Fields
Call Number: Ebook & Arch Lib Stacks NA2543.R37 F53 2000
ISBN: 0485004119
Publication Date: 2000
Blank-- : architecture, apartheid and after by Hilton Judin (Editor); Ivan Vladislavic (Editor)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA1592 .B58 1998
ISBN: 9056620924
Publication Date: 1999
American Apartheid by Douglas S. Massey; Nancy A. Denton
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780674018204
Publication Date: 1993
Hamilton Park : a planned Black community in Dallas by William H. Wilson
Call Number: ULIB F394.D216 H369 1998
ISBN: 080185766X
Publication Date: 1998

Researching Black Creators & Architecture

African American Architects by Melvin Mitchell
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA738.N5 M58 2020
ISBN: 9781734496000
Publication Date: 2020
An Architecture of Education by Angel David Nieves
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781787442627
Publication Date: 2018
Black Built by Paul Wellington
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA738.N5 W45 2019
ISBN: 9781732965119
Publication Date: 2019

Browsing the Architecture Library:

Architecture in the:

United States- African Americans. Blacks - NA 738.N5

Africa - NA 1580-

Egypt- NA 1581-1585
Ethiopia- NA 1586

North Africa - NA 1587-1591.6

Libya - NA 1588-1589
Morocco- NA 1590
Tunisia - NA 1591-1591.6

Sub-Saharan Africa. Central Africa - NA 1591.65

Southern Africa - NA 1591.7-1596

South Africa - NA 1592-1596.5
Other Southern African Countries - NA 1596.6 A-Z

Eastern Africa - NA 1597

Eastern African Countries - NA 1597.6 A-Z

Western Africa - NA 1598-1599

Western African Countries - NA 1599.6 A-Z