Brown, Adrienne R., 1983-

The black skyscraper : architecture and the perception of race / Adrienne Brown. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781421423845


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


Electronic Books.

NA2543 / .B533 2017