The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"Columnist and author Charles Blow never wanted to write a 'race book.' But as violence against Black people--both physical and psychological--seemed only to increase in recent years, culminating in the historic pandemic and protests of the summer of 2020, he felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans. He envisioned a succinct, counterintuitive, and impassioned corrective to the myths that have for too long governed our thinking about race and geography in America. Drawing on both political observations and personal experience as a Black son of the South, Charles set out to offer a call to action by which Black people can finally achieve equality, on their own terms."
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community
Learn how to address racial wealth disparity in the United States today. This informative epistle investigates the causes of racial wealth disparity in the United States and provides solutions for addressing it. Through extensive data and historical research, anecdotes, teaching, and case studies, it presents practical ways White people can work with and help the Black community.
Our Voices II: the DE-Colonial Project
Our Voices II: the DE-Colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments.
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice
Combining handbook, dictionary, and anthology, investigations and examples of artistic practices aimed at social change.
Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City
Washington, D.C. has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a 'post-chocolate' cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments.
Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection
Slow Spatial Reader offers a collection of essays about 'Slow' approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy. Its contributors are from twenty-four countries on five continents. Each one brings distinct philosophical and disciplinary approaches-from 'spatial' creative fields like architecture, sculpture, installation, dramaturgy and performance, but also research and activism-, exploring how we think about and engage with space at a range of scales, tempos, and durations.
Hip-Hop Architecture
Hip-Hop Architecture explores the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop. It is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip hop's cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas.
Design and Democracy: Activist Thoughts and Examples for Political Empowerment
Design affects all social contexts and is therefore intensively instrumentalized both by the politically powerful and their critics. Both functions of design, and their inevitable combination, are presented in this book in precise detail. Authors from various countries present previously unknown and innovative examples of democratic activities conducted through design.
Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating: Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping the World Today
Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating brings together individuals and groups engaged in building and sustaining platforms for online collaboration and participation, to explore and reflect on the methods, challenges and potentials of the technology of crowdsourcing, and mapping of social impact.
All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards the Future of Social Change
Through original contributions and case studies, this volume shows that socially engaged architecture is both a theoretical construct and a professional practice navigating the global politics of poverty, charity, health, technology, neoliberal urbanism, and the discipline's exclusionary basis.
Deem Journal
Deem is a biannual print journal and online platform focused on design as social practice.
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
This peer-reviewed journal is devoted to research and criticism on race in the social sciences. It provides a forum for discussion and increased understanding of race and society from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, communications, public policy, psychology, and history.
Iyamah, J. O. (2022). How Can Designers Build Interfaces That Avoid the “White Default?” AIGA Eye on Design.
Melenciano, A. (2020). Radical Technoculture for Racial Equity. Medium.
Poll, Z. (2020). Amid Land Disputes, An Unconventional Map Preserves Practices of Secrecy in Indigenous Communities. AIGA Eye on Design.
Wilson, M. O. (2018). Mine not yours. Dimensions of Citizenship. e-flux.
Wilkins, C. (2000). (W)rapped space: The architecture of hip hop. Journal of Architectural Education, 54(1), 7-19.
"A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism."
Data Feminism is an open access edition of the book by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, published by The MIT Press in 2020. Published on the PubPub platform, special features allow readers to comment on and link to specific content. The eBook is available in the Libraries' collection.
Patterned Justice: Design Languages for a Just Pittsburgh