If African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery, how does architecture relate to that experience? Rather than seek affirmation from a Eurocentric discipline that has regulated and excluded them from its study and practice, African Americans have claimed space in unexpected locations. Essays from varied voices—contemporary architects, artists, and historians—remain distinct even as they are synthesized in this anthology of consciousness-evoking practices.

With contributions by Tina M. Campt, Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson, Radiclani Clytus, J. Yolande Daniels, Jeffrey Hogrefe, Ann S. Holder, Walis Johnson, Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Rodney Leon, Scott Ruff, Marisa Williamson