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網友滿意度：
不論是在學生時期或開始工作後
我對語言一直都有難以言喻的嚮往~~
自英文的從國中啟蒙
能夠用其他語言的邏輯來思考事情
也是一件很有趣的一件事
跟一般人喜歡用吃吃喝喝出遊玩來打發時間
我更喜歡用書籍安靜的充實自己
所以特別跟大家推薦我目前在看的
The Black Skyscraper- Architecture and the Perception of Race
非常好上手、條理分明
對於希望入門別太難的人很適合
而且這最大的成就感就是用新學的
語言查資料了XD
看自己key出之前完全不了解的文字或音
真的有滿滿的感動啊~~
希望推薦的這本書能夠讓大家都能
感受或得知識的喜悅!
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With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Cities were now able to house and manage the large populations of newly freed blacks and immigrants flocking to their centers following Reconstruction. Beginning with Chicago’s early 10-story towers and concluding with the 1931 erection of the 110-story Empire State Building, Adrienne Brown’s The Black Skyscraper provides a detailed account of how scale and proximity shape our understanding of race.
Over the next half-century, as city skylines grew, American writers imagined the new urban backdrop as an obstacle to racial differentiation. Examining works produced by writers, painters, architects, and laborers who grappled with the early skyscraper’s outsized and disorienting dimensions, Brown explores this architecture’s effects on how race was seen, read, and sensed at the turn of the twentieth century.
In lesser-known works of apocalyptic science fiction, light romance, and Jazz Age melodrama, as well as in more canonical works by W. E. B. Du Bois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aaron Douglas, and Nella Larsen, the skyscraper mediates the process of seeing and being seen as a racialized subject. From its distancing apex—reducing bodies to specks—to the shadowy mega-blocks it formed at street level, Brown argues that the skyscraper called attention to the malleable nature of perception. A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper reclaims the influence of race on modern architectural design as well as the less-well-understood effects these designs had on the experience and perception of race.
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- 作者： Brown, Adrienne
- 原文出版社：Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- 出版日期：2017/10/12
- 語言：英文
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