An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

by Angel David Nieves

Book Overview

Examines material culture and the act of institution creation, especially through architecture and landscape, to recount a deeper history of the lives of African American women in the post-Civil War South.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469094
• ISBN13: 9781580469098
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"