Justice InDeed Bibliography
This page contains an evolving list of books, articles, thesis, and other materials related to our project. Contact us at JusticeIndeedMI at umich.edu with suggestions.
Books
Freund, David M. P. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Gibson, Carol and Jones, Lola M. Another Ann Arbor. Mount Pleasant: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Harris, Dianne. Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
hooks, bell, “Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice,” Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995, 145-151.
Kaplan, Victoria. Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
Marshall, A.P. Unconquered Souls: The History of African Americans in Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti: Marlan Publishers, 1993.
Robinson, Todd E. A City within a City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law : A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Travis, Jack. African-American Architects in Current Practice. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.
West, Cornel, “Race and Architecture,” in The Cornel West Reader (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 220-238. [See also West, Cornel, “A Note on Race and Architecture,” in Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America (New York: Routledge, 1993).]
Wilkins. Craig. Diversity Among Architects: From Margin to Center. New York and London: Routledge, 2016.
Zunz, Olivier. The Changing Face of Inequality : Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Articles
Bond, Max. “Still Here: Three Architects of Afro-America, Julian Francis Abele, Hilyard Robinson, and Paul R. Williams.” Harvard Design Magazine 2 (Summer 1997).
PhD Dissertations
Dolgon, Corey. “Innovators and Grave Diggers: Capital Restructuring and Class Formation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945- 1994.” University of Michigan PhD, 1994.
Peterson, Sarah Jo. “The Politics of Land Use and Housing in World War II Michigan: Building Bombers and Communities.” Yale University PhD, 2002.
Online Resources
Brian A. Williams, “An Unwritten Law,” Bentley Historical Library Magazine, Spring 2017.