This research guide was curated by Schetauna Powell in conjunction with the John M. Flaxman Library exhibition, Let's Build the World: Black Design as Collaborative Practice, on view February 15 - March 18, 2023. More information about the exhibition is available here.
Nice & Rough’: Unapologetically Black, Beautiful, and Bold: A Conversation with Sheila Jackson on Black Women’s Participation in Cultural Production in the 1970s*
Shiela Jackson and Angelica Macklin | Women’s Studies Quartely, vol. 43 (3/4) | p.151-165 | 2015
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The Dunbar High School Dilemma: Architecture, Power, and African American Cultural Heritage*
Amber Wiley | Buildings & Landscapes, vol. 20 (1) | p.95-128 | 2013
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The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape*
George Lipsitz | Lanscape Journal, vol. 26 (1) | p.10-23 | 2007
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The Black Experience in Design by 
Dear Science and Other Stories by 
The Design of Childhood by 
Designing the Creative Child by 
Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories by 
Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt by 
Just How I Picture it in My Mind: Contemporary African American Quilts From the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts by 
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by 
Signs and Symbols: African Images in African-American Quilts by 
Treasury of Amish Quilts by 
W. E. B. du Bois's Data Portraits by