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Cotton in the Crevices: Remnants of a Black Utopia

Walker-Brown, DaMario X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107572497883

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2021, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Mound Bayou, Mississippi is a small community founded by newly freed African-Americans in 1887. Historically known as an agricultural town, it thrived economically, educationally, and spiritually into the first decades of the 20th century while becoming a physical example of the desire of African-Americans to self-determine. By the time of the Great Depression, Mound Bayou began a slow and painful decline with the economic downturn and the introduction and influence of mechanization on agriculture, costing people their livelihoods. Mound Bayou today stands as memory of a proud historic past worthy of revitalization and reinvestment in its people and their community for continued existence in the 21st century. As a contemporary representation of the concept of a “Just City”, the purpose of this thesis shall be to inquire and examine the current conditions of Mound Bayou. In addition, this will be an exploration of how architecture can serve as a catalyst in conceptualizing a future on how this community can take its first steps to revitalization. The main focus of the design will be a new Community Center and Vocational school serving as way to influence the economic and communal reinvestment into this Mississippi Delta town.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
55 p.
Architecture
Revitalization; Black History; Mississippi; Community-based design; Delta region

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  • Walker-Brown, D. X. (2021). Cotton in the Crevices: Remnants of a Black Utopia [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107572497883

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Walker-Brown, DaMario. Cotton in the Crevices: Remnants of a Black Utopia. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107572497883.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Walker-Brown, DaMario. "Cotton in the Crevices: Remnants of a Black Utopia." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107572497883

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