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The Race & Podcast: Kasey Keeler: American Indians, Housing Policy & Home Ownership

In this episode, Maura Lucking (UW-Milwaukee) speaks to Kasey Keeler about her book, American Indians and the American Dream, which expands our understanding of U.S. hous

The Race & Podcast: Dianne Harris: The Racial Implications of Frank Lloyd Wright's Work

In this episode Charles L. Davis II (UT Austin) speaks with Dianne Harris (University of Washington) about the trajectory of her research throughout her career, from the

The Race & Podcast: Rebecca Tinio McKenna and David Brody: Daniel Burnham's Colonial Projects in the Philippines

In this episode Charles L. Davis II (UT Austin) speaks with Rebecca Tinio McKenna (University of Notre Dame) and David Brody (Parsons School of Design) on their books whi

Building Solidarities Series: Environmental Reclamations w/ Guests Alishine Osman, Anisa Salat, and Huma Gupta

Our guest series "Building Solidarities," organized by Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and students in the course "Colonial Practices," was originally staged as a series of di

Building Solidarities Series: Monumental Landscapes w/ Kate Beane, Lydia Waithira Muthuma, and Bhakti Shringarpure

Our guest series "Building Solidarities," organized by Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and students in the course "Colonial Practices," was originally staged as a series of di

Building Solidarities Series: Building Historical Consciousness w/ Guests Chris Cornelius, Elsa MH Mäki, and Nick Estes

Our guest series "Building Solidarities," organized by Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and students in the course "Colonial Practices," was originally staged as a series of di

Building Solidarities Series: Institutional Inhabitations w/ Guests the GoDown Arts Centre and Navatman

Our guest series "Building Solidarities," organized by Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and students in the course "Colonial Practices," was originally staged as a series of di

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project Series Trailer

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The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Black Panther's Wakanda

In this episode, we take a trip to Wakanda, the fictional country in Marvel’s Black Panther, and explore and analyze the speculative architecture through a dual-lens of A

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: African American Porch Culture

Porches, their origin in the United States as a space constructed by and for the Black body, has become a key architectural space fundamental to Black culture as a space

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Octavia Butler's Afrofuturism

Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy, published in 1987-1989 and republished in 2000 as Lilith’s Brood, follows the generational struggle of humanity against the alien ra

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Los Angeles's Little Tokyo & Bronzeville

In this podcast, we examine Little Tokyo in Los Angeles in the 1940s during and after Japanese American internment, its brief transformation into a prominent center of bl

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Los Angeles's Metro

Public transportation systems operating within American cities are highly racialized. By tying together first-hand accounts, news stories, and a range of data from studie

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Detroit's Urban Frontier

In our previous episode, our investigation on Seneca Village led us to consider the erasure of black urban spaces and settlements. In this episode, we question how this n

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: San Francisco's Chinatown

This is “All Roads Lead to Chinatown”, a podcast about deconstructing settler colonial narratives in architectural history. My name is Piao Liu and my name is Elena M’Bou

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Vincent Scully's Architectural History

In this episode, we discuss historian Vincent Scully’s legacy in constructing a narrative of American architecture. A year ago, the introduction to art history course at

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: America's New Urbanism

Responding to the modern development of unchecked placeless suburban sprawl, and the disinvestment of inner city centers, a group of architects, led by couple Elizabeth P

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Levittown's Suburbia

Levittown is often thought of as a paragon of mass-housing efficiency and as an influential model of how to execute suburban sprawl. It is also a primary spatiotemporal i

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs House

This podcast revisits the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, acclaimed American architect, at three scales: first, at a national scale, with his vision for a Usonia, then the urb

The Race & Podcast: American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Central Park's Lost Village

Today we explore the Seneca Village- one of Manhattan's first predominantly Black neighborhoods….. Started in 1825, Seneca Village was settled by freed African-Americans w