Title An architecture of education : African American women design the new South / Angel David Nieves

Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Gender and race in American history, 2152-6400 ; v. 7 Gender and race in American history. Contents Contested monument-making and the crisis of the lost cause, 1865-1920 -- The impact of Chicago's "white city" on African American placemaking -- Tuskegee utopianism: where American campus planning meets black nationalism -- The "race women" establishment: Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, Jennie Dean, and their all-black schools -- Manassas and Voorhees: models of race uplift -- Historically black colleges and universities: in service to the race Summary 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 women helped to memorialize the trauma and struggle of black Americans. Author Angel David Nieves tells the story of women such as Elizabeth Evelyn Wright (1872-1906), founder of the Voorhees Industrial School (now Voorhees College) in Denmark, South Carolina, in 1897, who not only promoted a program of race uplift through industrial education but also engaged with many of the pioneering African American architects of the period to design a school and surrounding community. Similarly, Jane (Jennie) Serepta Dean (1848-1913), a former slave, networked with elite Northern white designers to found the Manassas Industrial School in Manassas, Virginia, in 1892. An Architecture of Education examines the work of these women educators and reformers as a form of nascent nation building, noting the ways in which the social and political ideology of race uplift and gendered agency that they embodied was inscribed on the built environment through the design and construction of these model schools. In uncovering these women's role in the shaping of African American public spheres in the post-Reconstruction South, the book makes an important contribution to the history of African Americans' long struggle for equality and civil rights in the United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Börngen, ... gnd University of South Alabama gnd Subject African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History Institution building -- Southern States -- History School facilities -- Southern States -- History African American educators -- Southern States -- History African American social reformers -- Southern States -- History African American women -- Southern States -- History EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. African American educators African American social reformers African American women African Americans -- Education Institution building School facilities Schwarze Bildungswesen Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781787442627 1787442624

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