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Author:

Brown, Adrienne R., 1983- author.

Title:

The black skyscraper : architecture and the perception of race / Adrienne Brown.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Architecture and race--United States.
Skyscrapers--Social aspects--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-253) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1421423839
9781421423838

OCLC:

(OCoLC)976036286

LCCN:

2017007352

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)