Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture
Thesis (S.B. in Architectural Design)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, February 2005.
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2011
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| author | Whisby, Afiya A |
| author2 | Lawrence Sass. |
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| description | Thesis (S.B. in Architectural Design)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, February 2005. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/629782019-04-09T17:47:23Z Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture Whisby, Afiya A Lawrence Sass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Architecture. Thesis (S.B. in Architectural Design)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, February 2005. "December 2004." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references. No discussion on architecture and race would be complete without a look at the slave fortresses of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The importation of African slaves to the Americas was the economic catalyst that subsequently catapulted America in a world superpower, and questionably into imperial leadership. Speckled along the coast of West Africa, the architecture of the slave trade is as monumental and systematically oppressive as the institution it sustained. Due to the rise in prison privatization and the common practice of leasing prison labor to corporations while paying the offenders a menial fee, the American prison industry is operating more and more like slave fortresses. Spatially, the spaces are particularly similar in the areas of exterior formal qualities and parallel evolution of urban planning. by Afiya A. Whisby. S.B.in Architectural Design 2011-05-23T17:56:10Z 2011-05-23T17:56:10Z 2004 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62978 720329730 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 22 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| title | Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture |
| title_full | Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture |
| title_fullStr | Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture |
| title_short | Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture |
| title_sort | architecture of oppression slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary american urban prison architecture |
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