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Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern : architecture and the Black American middle class

Title
Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern : architecture and the Black American middle class / Jacqueline Taylor.
Author
Taylor, Jacqueline (Architectural historian)
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

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Additional Authors
Meredith, Amaza Lee, 1895-1984.
Description
285 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles; 25 cm
Summary
"This book presents the story of Amaza Lee Meredith (1895-1984), a little-known black woman architect, artist and educator born into the Jim Crow South. Her life and work bridge national boundaries to disrupt our understandings of the Great Migration, expand the reach of the well-documented Harlem Renaissance, and reveal the importance of architecture as a force in New Negro identity and Black middle-class self and group formation"--
Alternative Title
Architecture and the Black American middle class
Subject
  • Meredith, Amaza Lee, 1895-1984
  • African American architects > Biography
  • Education > Biography
  • African American women architects > Biography
  • African American architects
  • Buildings
  • International style (Architecture)
  • Ettrick (Va.) > Buildings, structures, etc
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Building -- Biography -- Modernizing Black education and employment opportunities -- Modern aesthetic theories, Africa and the new negro woman -- Utopian visions.
Call Number
Sc E 24-16
ISBN
  • 9780262048347
  • 0262048345
LCCN
2022060923
OCLC
1371013896
Author
Taylor, Jacqueline (Architectural historian), author.
Title
Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern : architecture and the Black American middle class / Jacqueline Taylor.
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Meredith, Amaza Lee, 1895-1984.
Research Call Number
Sc E 24-16
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