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The Black Skyscraper Architecture and the Perception of Race / Adrienne Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Adrienne R., 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skyscrapers--Social aspects--United States.
- Skyscrapers.
- Architecture and race--United States.
- Architecture and race.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper reclaims the influence of race on modern architectural design as well as the less-well-understood effects these designs had on the experience and perception of race.
- Contents:
- Introduction- race in three dimensions
- Architecture and the visual fate of whiteness
- The miscegenated skyscraper and passing metropolitans
- The black skyscraper
- Feeling white in the darkening city
- Epilogue: from skyscrapers to suburbs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2384-7
- OCLC:
- 1011094578
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