In reporting on the impact of embedded racism in architecture, RECORD convened a panel of architects last June—Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden, and Justin Garrett Moore—and published their discussion online and in the September issue. Now, in a second conversation, two scholars and a practitioner analyze the history of white supremacy in the built environment and in architectural education. Dianne Harris, a senior program officer at a social-justice philanthropy, is an architectural and urban historian whose books include Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America. Louis P. Nelson, professor of architectural history and vice provost for academic outreach at the University of Virginia, has researched spaces of enslavement in West Africa and the Americas as part of his scholarly work. Damon Rich is a partner at HECTOR, an urban-design, planning, and civic-arts practice, and was formerly the planning director for Newark. He was named a 2017 MacArthur Foundation fellow. Harris, Nelson, and Rich spoke with RECORD editor in chief Cathleen McGuigan. The following is a condensed version of their conversation.
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