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The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past

Author(s) -

Robert R. Weyeneth

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

the public historian

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.173

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1533-8576

pISSN - 0272-3433

DOI - 10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.11

Subject(s) - architecture , ideology , perspective (graphical) , conceptual framework , aesthetics , history , sociology , white (mutation) , environmental ethics , architectural engineering , gender studies , political science , politics , engineering , social science , visual arts , art , archaeology , law , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene

The article examines racial segregation as a spatial system and proposes a conceptual framework for assessing its significance. It analyzes how the ideology of white supremacy influenced design form in the United States and how Jim Crow architecture appeared on the landscape. For African Americans, the settings for everyday life were not simply the confines of this imposed architecture; the article analyzes responses such as the construction of alternative spaces. The discussion concludes by considering the architecture of segregation from the perspective of historic preservation.

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