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Diversity and Inclusion--Resources and References: African-American

Black Interior Designers

Black Interior Designers Network. https://blackinteriordesignersinc.com/about/. Accessed 16 August 2023. 

Clarke, Gerald. “A Gift for Thrift: A Designer Makes More with Less in His One-Bedroom Apartment in Harlem.” Architectural Digest, vol. 67, no. 2, Feb. 2010, p. 24. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=644089&site=ehost-live. Accessed 17 July 2020.

Hayes, Cecil, Samuel Adams, Scott Stearns, and HistoryMakers , Production Company. The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Cecil Hayes. 2016. Web. [Online access at NYU Bobst Library only.]

Keller, Hadley. "Black Interior Designers You Should be Following: Get to Know These Names." House Beautiful, 3 June 2020, www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/g26345377/black-interior-designers-making-history/. Accessed 17 July 2020.

Marshall, Patricia Phillips, and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll. Thomas Day : Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color. The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=708830&site=ehost-live.

Martin, Shayla. "25 Black Interior Designers Speak Frankly About Their Careers, Successes, and Challenges." ADPRO, Architectural Digest, 28 June 2019, www.architecturaldigest.com/story/being-black-interior-designer-today. Accessed 20 July 2020.

Rowlands, Penelope. “Art and Artifact.” Architectural Digest, vol. 62, no. 12, Dec. 2005, pp. 202–207. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=579182&site=ehost-live. Accessed 20 July 2020.

Travis, Jack. "Intersections: Black Culture + Design Culture." Interior Design Educators Council Annual Conference, 9 March 2018, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA. Keynote Presentation & Script.

Von Hoffman, Nicholas. “Cecil Hayes.” Architectural Digest, vol. 64, no. 4, Apr. 2007, pp. 132–138. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=597508&site=ehost-live. Accessed 20 July 2020.

Wax, Shelby. "Black Interior Designers Spill on Diversity in the Industry." Lonny, 4 March 2019. www.lonny.com/See+It+Now/articles/AFNcDuYfYgZ/ Black+Interior+Designers+Spill+Diversity+Industry. Accessed 17 July 2020.

Wicks, Lauren. “5 Black Creatives Who Helped Shape American Art, Architecture, and Design.” Veranda, 2 June 2021, https://www.veranda.com/home-decorators/a32908584/black-designers-who-shaped-america/.

Books/Articles by Black Interior Designers

Blakeney, Justina, and Dabito, photographer. The New Bohemians : Cool & Collected Homes. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2015.

Blakeney, Justina, and Dabito, photographer. The New Bohemians Handbook : Come Home to Good Vibes. Abrams, 2017.

Carter, Darryl. The New Traditional : Reinvent, Balance, Define Your Home. 1st ed., Clarkson Potter, 2008.

Shade, Roderick N., and Arango, Jorge S. Harlem Style : Designing for the New Urban Aesthetic. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002.

Black Architects

Chase, John, et al. The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with John S. Chase. The HistoryMakers, 2016.

The Directory of African American Architects. Center for the Study of Practice at the University of Cincinnati. blackarch.uc.edu. Accessed 17 July 2020.

Fazzare, Elizabeth, and Carly Olsen. "Barrier-Breaking African American Architects We Should be Celebrating." Architecture + Design, 21 Feb. 2019. www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/barrier-breaking-african-american-architects. Accessed 17 July 2020.

Grant, Brad. “The New Museum on the Mall.” International Review of African American Art, vol. 22, no. 4, Jan. 2009, pp. 30–33. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=505381165&site=ehost-live. Accessed 22 July 2020.

Grant, Bradford C. “Accommodation and Resistance: The Built Environment and the African American Experience.” Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices, edited by Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann, NED - New edition ed., vol. 5, University of Minnesota Press, 1996, pp. 202–233. JSTOR, https://nysid.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttmg1.9. Accessed 22 July 2020.

Grant, Bradford C., and Opal K. C. Baker. “By Design: A Survey of the Design Professions.” International Review of African American Art, vol. 15, no. 4, Apr. 1999, pp. 46–54. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=505723705&site=ehost-live. Accessed 17 July 2020.

Hudson, Karen E., and Williams, Paul R. Paul R. Williams, Architect : a Legacy of Style. Rizzoli International, 1993.

Jordan, Coleman A. “Confronting Inequality: Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States, by Victoria Kaplan.” Architectural Review, vol. 221, no. 1320, Feb. 2007, p. 94. [Print journal available in Library.]

Kaplan, Victoria. Structural Inequality : Black Architects in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Kliment, Stephen A. “The Black Architect in America, at CUNY.” Oculus, vol. 61, no. 10, Jan. 1999, pp. 8–9.  [Citation only.]

Slessor, Catherine. “The Lives of Unsung Black Architects Underscore the Challenge of Diversification [Editorial].” Architects’ Journal, vol. 244, no. 16, Aug. 2017, p. 72. EBSCOhost, https://nysid.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=772932&site=ehost-live. Accessed 17 July 2020. 

Sokol, David. “Weeksville Heritage Center by Caples Jefferson Architects.” Architectural Record, vol. 194, no. 12, Oct. 2006, p. 40. USModernist.org, usmodernist.org/AR/AR-2006-10.pdf. Accessed 20 July 2020.

Travis, Jack. African American Architects in Current Practice. Princeton Architectural Press, 1991.

Travis, Jack. “African American Architecture: From Idea to Published Product.” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), vol. 47, no. 1, 1993, pp. 60–62. JSTOR, https://nysid.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1425231. Accessed 22 July 2020.

Wilson, Dreck Spurlock. African American Architects : A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945. Routledge, 2004. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=48249851&site=ehost-live. Accessed 17 July 2020.

Black Aesthetics & Designs

Algotsson, Sharne., et al. The Spirit of African Design. 1st ed., Clarkson Potter, 1996.

Carmichael, Jacqueline. "Defining the Black Aesthetic in African American Interior Decoration in the Home Environment Through Art." Journal of Interior Design, vol. 44, no. 3, Sept. 2019, pp. 185-194. Wiley Online Librarydoi:10.1111/joid.12147. Accessed 29 July 2020.

Powell, Richard J. Black Art : a Cultural History. Rev. and expanded ed., Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Powell, Richard J. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century. Thames & Hudson, 1997.

Prussin, Labelle., and Amina Adan. African Nomadic Architecture : Space, Place, and Gender. Smithsonian Institution Press : National Museum of African Art, 1995.

Shade, Roderick N., and Arango, Jorge S. Harlem Style : Designing for the New Urban Aesthetic. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002.

South African-American

Aronson, Steven M. L. “Charles Allem.” Architectural Digest, vol. 58, no. 9, Sept. 2001, pp. 248–292. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=194693&site=ehost-live. Accessed 20 July 2020.

Rowlands, Penelope. “Charles Allem.” Architectural Digest, vol. 63, no. 9, Sept. 2006, pp. 222–229. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=589949&site=ehost-live. Accessed 20 July 2020.

Von Hoffman, Nicholas. “Charles  Allem.” Architectural Digest, vol. 64, no. 3, Mar. 2007, pp. 87–92. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.nysid.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=597522&site=ehost-live Accessed 20 July 2020.