Research Catalog

Title

An architecture of education : African American women design the new South / Angel David Nieves.

Author

Nieves, Angel David

Publication

• Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xiii, 193 pages : illustrations, maps & plans; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded industrial and normal schools in the American South. Through their work in architecture and education, these women helped to memorialize the trauma and struggle of black Americans. Author Angel David Nieves tells the story of women such as Elizabeth Evelyn Wright (1872-1906), founder of the Voorhees Industrial School (now Voorhees College) in Denmark, South Carolina, in 1897, who not only promoted a program of race uplift through industrial education but also engaged with many of the pioneering African American architects of the period to design a school and surrounding community. Similarly, Jane (Jennie) Serepta Dean (1848-1913), a former slave, networked with elite Northern white designers to found the Manassas Industrial School in Manassas, Virginia, in 1892. An Architecture of Education examines the work of these women educators and reformers as a form of nascent nation building, noting the ways in which the social and political ideology of race uplift and gendered agency that they embodied was inscribed on the built environment through the design and construction of these model schools. In uncovering these women's role in the shaping of African American public spheres in the post-Reconstruction South, the book makes an important contribution to the history of African Americans' long struggle for equality and civil rights in the United States.

Series Statement

Gender and race in American history, 2152-6400 ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Gender and race in American history.

Subjects

• African American women
• Institution building
• School facilities
• African American educators
• African American social reformers
• African Americans > Education
• African American women > Southern States > History
• Institution building > Southern States > History
• Southern States
• History
• School facilities > Southern States > History
• African American educators > Southern States > History
• African American social reformers > Southern States > History
• African Americans > Education > Southern States > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references ( pages 155-184) and index.

Contents

Contested monument-making and the crisis of the lost cause, 1865-1920 -- The impact of Chicago's "white city" on African American placemaking -- Tuskegee utopianism: where American campus planning meets black nationalism -- The "race women" establishment: Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, Jennie Dean, and their all-black schools -- Manassas and Voorhees: models of race uplift -- Historically black colleges and universities: in service to the race.

Call Number

Sc E 18-1106

ISBN

• 9781580469098
• 1580469094

LCCN

2018014789

OCLC

1022503929

Author

Nieves, Angel David, author.

Title

An architecture of education : African American women design the new South / Angel David Nieves.

Publisher

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Gender and race in American history, 2152-6400 ; v. 7

Gender and race in American history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 155-184) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-1106