April 19, 2021 • Jay Cephas on “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America”
Installation view of “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Robert Gerhardt.
IN 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published
Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880. Coming in at just under eight hundred pages, Du Bois’s “essay” served to carefully delineate the role of African Americans in the social, political, and economic restructuring of the United States following the devastation of the Civil War. In many ways, the artists, architects, and designers included in “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in
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A selection of virtual and in-person cultural events happening at the University this weekend and next week
The 10 architects, artists and designers whose work is currently featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” exhibit, and who are collectively known as the Black Reconstruction Collective will present Black Joy will be featured as the final event in the Stuckeman School Virtual Lecture Series on March 24. Image: Library of Congress
Things to Do at Penn State: March 18-25
March 17, 2021
What s happening at Penn State? Here s a look at some of the cultural events both in-person and virtual taking place at the University this weekend and next week: