Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern

Name: Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Brand: The MIT Press
SKU: 0262048345
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ISBN: 9780262048347

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28 Nov, 2023

By Jacqueline Taylor(Author)

The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle c...

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ISBN-10:

0262048345

ISBN-13:

9780262048347

Publisher

The MIT Press

No.of Pages

288

Dimensions

9.81 X 6.56 X 0.97 inches

Description

The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black woman architect, artist, and educator born into the Jim Crow South, whose bold choices in both life and architecture expand our understanding of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, while revealing the importance of architecture as a force in Black middle-class identity. Through her charismatic protagonist, Jacqueline Taylor derives new insights into the experiences of Black women at the forefront of culture in early twentieth-century America, caught between expectation and ambition, responsibility and desire.

Central to Taylor’s argument is that Meredith’s response to modern architecture and art, like those of other Black cultural producers, was not marginal to the modernist project; instead, her work reveals the tensions and inconsistencies in how American modernism has been defined. In this way, the book shines a necessary light on modernism’s complexity, while overturning perceived notions of race and gender in relation to the modernist project and challenging the notion of the white male hero of modern architecture.

Product Details

ISBN-10

: 0262048345

ISBN-13

: 9780262048347

Publisher

: The MIT Press

Publication date

: 28 Nov, 2023

About the Author

Jacqueline Taylor is an award-winning researcher and writer who focuses on the built environment and art with specific reference to issues of race and gender. She has worked in public practice and academe and has published widely in edited volumes and anthologies, including Southern Cultures and Suffragette City: Women, Politics, and the Built Environment.