Nieves reveals an understudied dimension of black women''s important work within the industrial school movement. Moreover, he has contributed to a growing trend toward the recovery of black women''s intellectual labor, especially that of poor and working-class black women. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY An illuminating read.It is valuable in helping the lay person understand better the context and challenges to education provision in America''s deep south, including attitudes to the education of African Americans at the time, and the pervasive effect of Jim Crow laws and organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan. WOMEN''S HISTORY REVIEW An Architecture of Education opens doors to new actors, places, and topics in architectural history - ones that architectural historians should take note of, learn from, and pursue. CAA REVIEWS In this compelling history, Angel David Nieves provides a fresh new view of the establishment of African American educational institutions through a consideration of the critical spatial history of the late nineteenth century. A nuanced examination of the architectural and social history of this period, this volume also recounts the extraordinary achievements of two black women educators, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and Jennie Dean, who founded and built, respectively, Voorhees College and the Manassas Industrial School. Readers of all backgrounds will find this volume to be both absorbing and elucidating.

--Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Angel Nieves''s important study An Architecture of Education reframes our understanding of the racial and spatial politics of American life by focusing on the building of Black college campuses as critical to the shaping of the American education system. By inserting the contributions of Black women institution-builders Jennie Dean and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright into the dialogue on racial landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Nieves reminds us that the built environment is deeply implicated in the racial ordering of American life." --Brittney Cooper, author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women In this innovative study, Angel David Nieves highlights the vital institutional and intellectual work of black women educators in the post-Civil War South. These women take center stage as savvy institution builders who devised various strategies to improve the social and economic conditions of people of African descent in the United States. Their unwavering commitment to nation building, political self-determination, and education laid the groundwork for a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle for civil rights in the decades to follow. --Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom of the critical spatial history of the late nineteenth century.

A nuanced examination of the architectural and social history of this period, this volume also recounts the extraordinary achievements of two black women educators, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and Jennie Dean, who founded and built, respectively, Voorhees College and the Manassas Industrial School. Readers of all backgrounds will find this volume to be both absorbing and elucidating.--Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Angel Nieves''s important study An Architecture of Education reframes our understanding of the racial and spatial politics of American life by focusing on the building of Black college campuses as critical to the shaping of the American education system. By inserting the contributions of Black women institution-builders Jennie Dean and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright into the dialogue on racial landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Nieves reminds us that the built environment is deeply implicated in the racial ordering of American life." --Brittney Cooper, author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women In this innovative study, Angel David Nieves highlights the vital institutional and intellectual work of black women educators in the post-Civil War South. These women take center stage as savvy institution builders who devised various strategies to improve the social and economic conditions of people of African descent in the United States. Their unwavering commitment to nation building, political self-determination, and education laid the groundwork for a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle for civil rights in the decades to follow.

--Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom vironment is deeply implicated in the racial ordering of American life." --Brittney Cooper, author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women In this innovative study, Angel David Nieves highlights the vital institutional and intellectual work of black women educators in the post-Civil War South. These women take center stage as savvy institution builders who devised various strategies to improve the social and economic conditions of people of African descent in the United States. Their unwavering commitment to nation building, political self-determination, and education laid the groundwork for a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle for civil rights in the decades to follow. --Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom of the critical spatial history of the late nineteenth century. A nuanced examination of the architectural and social history of this period, this volume also recounts the extraordinary achievements of two black women educators, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and Jennie Dean, who founded and built, respectively, Voorhees College and the Manassas Industrial School.

Readers of all backgrounds will find this volume to be both absorbing and elucidating.--Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Angel Nieves''s important study An Architecture of Education reframes our understanding of the racial and spatial politics of American life by focusing on the building of Black college campuses as critical to the shaping of the American education system. By inserting the contributions of Black women institution-builders Jennie Dean and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright into the dialogue on racial landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Nieves reminds us that the built environment is deeply implicated in the racial ordering of American life." --Brittney Cooper, author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women In this innovative study, Angel David Nieves highlights the vital institutional and intellectual work of black women educators in the post-Civil War South. These women take center stage as savvy institution builders who devised various strategies to improve the social and economic conditions of people of African descent in the United States. Their unwavering commitment to nation building, political self-determination, and education laid the groundwork for a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle for civil rights in the decades to follow. --Keisha N.

Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom of the critical spatial history of the late nineteenth century. A nuanced examination of the architectural and social history of this period, this volume also recounts the extraordinary achievements of two black women educators, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and Jennie Dean, who founded and built, respectively, Voorhees College and the Manassas Industrial School. Readers of all backgrounds will find this volume to be both absorbing and elucidating.--Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Angel Nieves''s important study An Architecture of Education reframes our understanding of the racial and spatial politics of American life by focusing on the building of Black college campuses as critical to the shaping of the American education system. By inserting the contributions of Black women institution-builders Jennie Dean and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright into the dialogue on racial landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Nieves reminds us that the built environment is deeply implicated in the racial ordering of American life." --Brittney Cooper, author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women In this innovative study, Angel David Nieves highlights the vital institutional and intellectual work of black women educators in the post-Civil War South. These women take center stage as savvy institution builders who devised various strategies to improve the social and economic conditions of people of African descent in the United States.

Their unwavering commitment to nation building, political self-determination, and education laid the groundwork for a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle for civil rights in the decades to follow. --Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom vironment is deeply implicated in the racial ordering of American life." --Brittney Cooper, author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women In this innovative study, Angel David Nieves highlights the vital institutional and intellectual work of black women educators in the post-Civil War South. These women take center stage as savvy institution bu.