Race in Design History
An Anthology
Will be published approx. on 16. March 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-691-28067-7 (ISBN)
Description
A groundbreaking and richly illustrated examination of race in design from 1800 to today, featuring original essays from leading curators, scholars, and designers
How do the social structures of race influence the designed world and the disciplines through which we study them? Featuring newly commissioned contributions by thirty-two curators, scholars, and designers, this wide-ranging anthology explores race and design through objects, clothing, buildings, and interior spaces. It includes critical essays, historical case studies, first-person narratives, interviews, and discussions about researching and teaching design history. These pieces critique design as a tool of power and highlight design's use in acts of resistance and its capacity for cultural affirmation and emotional connection. Race in Design History demonstrates how the history of design becomes deeper and more expansive when it engages with Black, Asian, and Latinx identities and with constructions of whiteness and indigeneity. The result underscores the powerful ways design shapes our world and how we understand our place in it.
The book features four sections:
The Performance of Race Through Design
Design and the Spatialization of Race
Objects and Ornament as Signifiers of Race
Identity at the Intersection of Design History Practice
Contributors include Karen R. Baker * Audrey G. Bennett * Leticia M. Brown * Mirjam Brusius * Diana Budds * Stephen Burks * PJ Carlino * Sarah Cheang * Adrienne L. Childs * Sarah H. Cho * Christina L. De Leon * Chris Dingwall * Javier Gimeno-Martinez * Imogen Hart * Sophie Higgerson * Camara Dia Holloway * Amanda Horton * Katie Irani * Ladi'Sasha Jones * Craig Lee * Zenia Malmer * Cheryl D. Miller * Lesley-Ann Noel * Victoria Rose Pass * John Potvin * Livia Rezende * Jennifer Rittner * Marie Saldana * Tiana Webb-Evans * Folayemi Wilson
How do the social structures of race influence the designed world and the disciplines through which we study them? Featuring newly commissioned contributions by thirty-two curators, scholars, and designers, this wide-ranging anthology explores race and design through objects, clothing, buildings, and interior spaces. It includes critical essays, historical case studies, first-person narratives, interviews, and discussions about researching and teaching design history. These pieces critique design as a tool of power and highlight design's use in acts of resistance and its capacity for cultural affirmation and emotional connection. Race in Design History demonstrates how the history of design becomes deeper and more expansive when it engages with Black, Asian, and Latinx identities and with constructions of whiteness and indigeneity. The result underscores the powerful ways design shapes our world and how we understand our place in it.
The book features four sections:
The Performance of Race Through Design
Design and the Spatialization of Race
Objects and Ornament as Signifiers of Race
Identity at the Intersection of Design History Practice
Contributors include Karen R. Baker * Audrey G. Bennett * Leticia M. Brown * Mirjam Brusius * Diana Budds * Stephen Burks * PJ Carlino * Sarah Cheang * Adrienne L. Childs * Sarah H. Cho * Christina L. De Leon * Chris Dingwall * Javier Gimeno-Martinez * Imogen Hart * Sophie Higgerson * Camara Dia Holloway * Amanda Horton * Katie Irani * Ladi'Sasha Jones * Craig Lee * Zenia Malmer * Cheryl D. Miller * Lesley-Ann Noel * Victoria Rose Pass * John Potvin * Livia Rezende * Jennifer Rittner * Marie Saldana * Tiana Webb-Evans * Folayemi Wilson
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
27 color plates + 47 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-691-28067-7 (9780691280677)
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Persons
Kristina Wilson is professor of art history at Clark University. Her books include Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design (Princeton). Michelle Joan Wilkinson is supervisory curator of architecture and design at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. She cocurated the 2024 Smithsonian Design Triennial and is the coeditor of its accompanying book, Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century.