The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power

"In this long overdue book, aimed at Black America and her allies, Melvin Mitchell poses the question 'why haven't black architects developed a Black Architecture that complements modernist black culture that is rooted in world-class blues, jazz, hip-hop music, and other black aesthetic forms?' His provocative thesis, inspired by Harold Cruse's landmark book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, exposes the roots of an eighty-year-old estrangement between black architects and Black America."