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Anti-Racism and Global Architectural History

Anti-Racism and Global Architectural History
This Module is the product of a special call for lectures on the topic of Anti-Racism and Global Architectural History - July 2020 GAHTC stands in solidarity with ongoing protests for racial justice and against the murder of Black and Indigenous peoples now and throughout history in the name of white supremacy. For too long, architectural history has been complicit with this violence by contributing to a false narrative of Eurocentrism and Western superiority. As an organization focused on guiding the discourse of architectural history by reshaping teaching at the survey level, we understand that a focus on broader coverage implicitly opposes these narratives. But it does not necessarily reveal and counter them. We want to explicitly state our commitment to anti-racist conversations and teaching materials. Teaching about racism and its history as made relevant through our field is an important avenue of change. Our database includes several lectures that discuss the role of race and racism in the history of architecture, with additional lectures recently commissioned and currently in progress. In an effort to use our platform to support anti-racist teaching for the coming a...
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