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Confronting Inequality.(Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States )(Book...

By Jordan, Coleman A.
Publication: The Architectural Review
Date: Thursday, February 1 2007

STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY: BLACK ARCHITECTS IN THE UNITED STATES

By Victoria Kaplan. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. 2006. $65 hardback, $24.95 paperback

This sociological activist study approaches architecture as a 'metaphor for the larger society', a profession whose practices reflect and reinforce continued racial discrimination in the United States. Kaplan employs the ethnographic methods of interview and storytelling to sample 20 African American architects' voices. They speak about systemic discrimination and injustice, and expose the racist

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