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Diversifying Architecture Discourses (Working draft): General resources

A list of resources on design cultures, histories, intellectual life and practices of underrepresented communities within the architectural discourse.

Diversifying the Discourse (Initial project: Fall 2021-Summer 2026)

Realigning SCI-Arc's information resources towards a more global, diverse and inclusive representation of architecture and design history, theory and current practices is an urgently needed aspect of SCI-Arc's mission of "reimagining the limits of architecture."

This project expands and deepens the Kappe Library's focus with new resources on designers, design cultures, and spatial practices that have been underrepresented in our collections.

The focus will be on augmenting the library's print book collection, but the project will also support acquisitions of relevant e-books, movies, and online resources.

E-text acquisitions

 

 

THE FUNAMBULIST is available via thefunambulist.net, from issue #45 (2022). Click here for info on print holdings at the Kappe Library.

Book acquisitions, Fall 2021-present

ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING BY REGION

AFRICA

Meuser, Philipp & Adil Dalbai (editors), Sub-Saharan Africa : architectural guide, DOM, NA1591.65 .S83 2021 Vol.1-7

 

AMERICAS

Carral, Juan, Rethinking suburban housing, Arquine, NA687 .C37 2021

Dudley, Tara A., Building antebellum New Orleans : free people of color and their influence, University of Texas Press, NA738.N5 D83 2021

Etchegaray, Gabriela, et al, ReUrbano : toward a city, Arquine, NA9132.A4 E83 2021

Grant, Elizabeth, et al, The handbook of contemporary indigenous architecture, Springer, NA500 .C66 2018

Hudson, Karen E., Paul R. Williams : classic Hollywood style, Rizzoli, NA737.W527 H847 2012

Montaner, Josep Maria, et al, Elías Rizo Arquitectos, Arquine, NA759.E45 A4 2021

 

ASIA, EAST

Carracedo, Oscar, Design resilience in Asia : thinking the unpredictable, designing with uncertainty, Actar Publishers, NA9053.E58 C37 2021

Cummer, Katie & Lynne D. DiStefano, Asian revitalization : adaptive reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore, Hong Kong University Press, NA2793 .A87 2021

Kim, Young Joon & Manuel Gausa (curators), Superground underground : Seoul new groundscapes, Actar, NA9268.6.S4 S8713 2019

Roskam, Cole, Designing reform : architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992, Yale University Press, NA1545 .R67 2021

Williams, Austin, New Chinese architecture : twenty women building the future, Thames & Hudson, NA1548 .W55 2019

 

ASIA, SOUTH

Carracedo, Oscar, Design resilience in Asia : thinking the unpredictable, designing with uncertainty, Actar Publishers, NA9053.E58 C37 2021

 

ASIA, SOUTHEAST

ARCH+ (editor), Contested Modernities: Postcolonial Architecture and the Construction of Identities in Southeast Asia, Arch +; Birkhauser, NA3 .A68 2021

Fels, Patricia Tusa, Monsoon mosques : arrival of Islam and the development of a mosque vernacular, Mapin Publishing, NA4670 .F45 2020

Girard, Jean-Claude, Leandro Valencia Locsin : Filipino architect, Birkhäuser, NA1529.L63 G57 2022

 

MID-EAST (WEST / SOUTHWEST ASIA)

Camacho, Ricardo, Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018 : the history of architectural practice in the Middle East, Actar, NA1465.3 .C36 2021

El-Solh, Nayla, The PM's Beirut mansion : if walls could speak, Unicorn Publishing, NA7515.L4 L42 2021

 

 

OTHER RESOURCES ARRANGED BY SUBJECT

ACCESSIBILITY & DISABILITIES STUDIES  

Guffey, Elizabeth E. & Bess Williamson (editors), Making disability modern : design histories, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, NK1110 .M35 2020

Eddy, Marta Bordas, et al (editors), Four wheelchair-user architects, Gustavo Gili, NA2545 .P5F68 2017

Ladau, Emily, Demystifying disability : what to know, what to say, and how to be an ally, Ten Speed Press, HV3011 .L33 2021

Samuels, Ellen & Elizabeth Freeman (editors), Crip Temporalities, Duke University Press, HV1568 .C85 2021

Siebers, Tobin, Disability aesthetics, University of Michigan Press, HV1568.2 .S535 2010

 

BLACK / AFRICAN AMERICAN / AFRICAN DIASPORA

Abdurraqib, Hanif, A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance, Random House, PN1590.B53 A23 2021

Butler, Octavia E., Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories, Library of America, PS3552.U827 A6 2020

Brooks, Daphne, Liner notes for the revolution : the intellectual life of black feminist sound, Belknap Harvard, ML3556 .B74 2021

Brown, Jayna, Black utopias : speculative life and the music of other worlds, Duke University Press, BD450 .B67 2021

 

COLONIALISM / IMPERIALISM

Ferdinand, Malcom, A decolonial ecology : thinking from the Caribbean world, Polity, GF13.3.C27 F4713 2022

Peabody, Rebecca, et al (editors), Visualizing empire : Africa, Europe and the politics of representation, Getty Research Institute, JV1811 .V57 2021

 

DESIGN (SOCIAL ASPECTS)

Lupton, Ellen, et al, Extra bold : a feminist inclusive anti-racist nonbinary field guide for graphic designers, Princeton Architectural Press, NK1520 .E98 2021

Mareis, Claudia & Nina Paim (editors), Design struggles : intersecting histories, pedagogies, and perspectives, Valiz, NK1510 .D4768 2021

Pater, Ruben, Caps lock : how capitalism took hold of graphic design, and how to escape it, Valiz, NC1001.6 .P38 2021

Walters, Kelly, Black, Brown + Latinx design educators : conversations on design and race, Princeton Architectural Press, NX650.R34 W35 2021

Wilson, Kristina, Mid-century modernism and the American body : race, gender, and the politics of power in design, Princeton University Press, NK1404 .W557 2021

 

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Farrell, Justin, Billionaire wilderness : the ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West, Princeton University Press, HC110.W4 F368 2020

 

EQUITY / INCLUSION (GENERAL)

Cox, Karen L., No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice, University of North Carolina Press, E645 .C698 2021

Ferdinand, Malcom, A decolonial ecology : thinking from the Caribbean world, Polity, GF13.3.C27 F4713 2022

Margulies, Joseph, Thanks for everything (now get out) : can we restore neighborhoods without destroying them? Yale University Press, HT177.P76 M37 2021

Sanchez, George J., Boyle Heights : how a Los Angeles neighborhood became the future of American democracy, University of California Press, F869.B69 S26 2021

Slater, Tom, Shaking up the city : ignorance, inequality, and the urban question, University of California Press, HT151 .S487 2021

 

FASHION DESIGN

Blanks, Tim, Versace catwalk : the complete collections, Yale University Press, TT505.V47 B54 2021

Camerlengo, Laura L., Patrick Kelly : runway of love, Yale University Press, TT505.K42 C36 2021

 

FEMINISM & ARCHITECTURE

Frichot, Hélène, How to make yourself a feminist design power tool, Spurbuchverlag, NA2543.F45 F75 2016

Schalk, Meike, et al (editors), Feminist futures of spatial practice : materialism, activism, dialogues, pedagogies, projections, Spurbuchverlag, NA2543.F45 F445 2017

 

FEMINIST HISTORY/THEORY

Brooks, Daphne, Liner notes for the revolution : the intellectual life of black feminist sound, Belknap Harvard, ML3556 .B74 2021

Laboria Cuboniks (Collective), The xenofeminist manifesto : a politics for alienation, Verso, HQ1154 .C773 2018

Nochlin, Linda, Why have there been no great women artists? Thames & Hudson, N72.F45 N635 2021

Russell, Legacy, Glitch feminism : a manifesto, Verso, HQ1178 .R877 2020

 

FIRST SOCIETIES / INDIGENOUS HISTORIES

Akins, Damon B. & William J. Bauer, Jr., We are the land : a history of Native California, University of California Press, E78.C15 A487 2021

Jarzombek, Mark, Architecture of first societies : a global perspective, Wiley, GN799.B8 J39 2013

 

GEOGRAPHY / GEOGRAPHICAL PHILOSOPHY

Santos, Mílton, For a new geography, University of Minnesota Press, G70 .S25413 2021

 

HUMAN ECOLOGY / ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY 

Ferdinand, Malcom, A decolonial ecology : thinking from the Caribbean world, Polity, GF13.3.C27 F4713 2022

 

LGBTQ+

Baker, Gilbert, Rainbow warrior : my life in color, Chicago Review Press, HQ75.8.B345 B35 2019

Blanks, Tim, Versace catwalk : the complete collections, Yale University Press, TT505.V47 B54 2021

Bordowitz, Gregg, Some styles of masculinity, Triple Canopy, RC606.55.B67 A4 2021

Camerlengo, Laura L., Patrick Kelly : runway of love, Yale University Press, TT505.K42 C36 2021

Doan, Petra L. (editor), Planning and LGBTQ communities : the need for inclusive queer spaces, Routledge, HQ76.25 .P58 2015

Furman, Adam Nathaniel & Joshua Mardell (editors), Queer spaces : an atlas of LGBTQIA+ places and stories, RIBA Publishing, HQ76.25 .Q93 2022

Souhami, Diana, No modernism without lesbians, Head of Zeus, N6848.5.M63 S684 2020

Vider, Stephen, The queerness of home : gender, sexuality, and the politics of domesticity after World War II, University of Chicago Press, HQ73 .V53 2021

 

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Morrissey, Fitzroy, A short history of Islamic thought, Oxford University Press, BP161.3 .M676 2021

 

RELIGIOUS DIASPORA

Becker, Elisabeth, Mosques in the metropolis : incivility, caste, and contention in Europe, University of Chicago Press, BP65.A1 B43 2021

Fels, Patricia Tusa, Monsoon mosques : arrival of Islam and the development of a mosque vernacular, Mapin Publishing, NA4670 .F45 2020

Stolzenberg, Nomi M. & David N. Myers, American shtetl : the making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in upstate New York, Princeton University Press, F129.K68 S76 2021

 

VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS / ARTISTS

Chen, Howie (editor), Godzilla : Asian American Arts Network, Primary Information, N6538.A83 G63 2021

Godfrey, Mark & Allie Biswas (editors), The Soul of a nation reader : writings by and about Black American artists, 1960-1980, Gregory R. Miller & Co., N6538.N5 S6452 2021

Hartt, David, David Hartt : the histories, Inventory Press, N6537.H3634 A4 2022

Jafa, Arthur, Magnumb, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, N6498.V53 J33 2021

Jenkins, Earnestine, Black artists in America : from the Great Depression to civil rights, Yale University Press, N6538.N5 J46 2021

Nochlin, Linda, Why have there been no great women artists? Thames & Hudson, N72.F45 N635 2021

Powell, Richard J., Black art : a cultural history, Thames & Hudson, N6538.B53 P69 2021

Well-Off-Man, Manuela, Exposure : native art and political ecology, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, N6351.2.I53 A4 2021

 

WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN 

Hall, Jane, Woman made : great women designers, Phaidon, NK1174 .H35 2021

Hartman, Jan Cigliano (editor), The women who changed architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, NA1997 .W664 2022

Izaskun, Chinchilla (curator), Cosmowomen : places as constellations, Silvana Editoriale, NA1997 .C6766 2021

Kastner, Victoria, Julia Morgan : an intimate biography of the trailblazing architect, Chronicle Books, NA737.M68 K37 2021

Levit, Briar (editors), Baseline shift : untold stories of women in graphic design history, Princeton Architectural Press, NC998 .B375 2021

Schwitalla, Ursula (editor), Women in architecture : past, present, and future, Hatje Cantz, NA1997 .A7313 2021

Williams, Austin, New Chinese architecture : twenty women building the future, Thames & Hudson, NA1548 .W55 2019

ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING, DESIGN & VISUAL ARTS BY REGION

AFRICA

Avermaete, Tom & Maxime Zaugg (editors), Agadir : building the modern Afropolis, Park Books, NA1590.2.A33 A94 2022

Demissie, Fassil (editor), Colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa : intertwined and contested histories, Taylor & Francis Ltd., NA1580 .C65 2012

El-Wakil, Leila (editor), Hassan Fathy : an architectural life, American University in Cairo Press, NA1585.F37 H37 2018

Judin, Hilton, Architecture, state modernism and cultural nationalism in the apartheid capital, Routledge, NA1592.5.A63 J83 2020

Stanek, Lukasz, Architecture in global socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, Princeton University Press, NA680 .S79 2020

Tomás, António, In the skin of the city : spatial transformation in Luanda, Duke University Press, HT384.A52 L836 2022

 

AMERICAS

Cruz, César A., Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb : a modern architect's sense of place, Routledge, NA737.K577 C78 2021

Del Real, Patricio, Constructing Latin America : architecture, politics, and race at the Museum of Modern Art, Yale University Press, N620.M9 D45 2022

Deupi, Victor, Cuban modernism : mid-century architecture 1940-1970, Birkhäuser, NA803 .D48 2021

Gonzalez, Robert Alexander, Designing Pan-America : U.S. architectural visions for the Western Hemisphere, University of Texas Press, NA710.5.P36 G66 2011

Hyde, Timothy, Constitutional modernism : architecture and civil society in Cuba, 1933-1959, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.S6 H93 2012

Siqueira Lopes, João Paulo, et al (editors), Gute form, good design : design in Brazil, 1947-68, Act, NK1390 .G88 2021

Sullivan, Megan A., Radical form : modernist abstraction in South America, Yale University Press, N6620 .S85 2022

 

ASIA, EAST

Pernice, Raffaele, The urbanism of Metabolism : visions, scenarios and models for the mutant city of tomorrow, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, HT166 .U746 2022

Roskam, Cole, Improvised city : architecture and governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937, University of Washington Press, NA2543.S6 R65 2019

 

ASIA, SOUTH

Bhatia, Gautam, Laurie Baker : life, work, writings, Penguin, NA1510.B35 B47 1994

Davison, Julian, Balinese architecture : a guide to traditional and modern design, Tuttle, NA1526.6 .B34D3 1999

Deåuòlagåavakara, Atula, Laurie Baker : truth in architecture, Jyotsna Prakashan, NA1510.B35 D4797 2014

Desai, Madhavi, Women architects and modernism in India : narratives and contemporary practices, Routledge, NA1997 .D47 2019

Dharia, Namita Vijay, The industrial ephemeral : labor and love in Indian architecture and construction, University of California Press, HT147.I4 D47 2022

Doshi, Balkrishna V., Writings on architecture & identity, ArchiTangle, NA1510.D67 A4 2019b

Frampton, Kenneth, et al (contributors), Raj Rewal : innovative architecture and tradition, Om Books International, NA1510.R48 R35 2013

Geva, Rotem, Delhi reborn : partition and nation building in India's capital, Stanford University Press, DS486.D3 G385 2022

Hosagrahar, Jyoti, Indigenous modernities : negotiating architecture and urbanism, Routledge, NA1508.D5 H67 2005

Jayewardene-Pillai, Shanti, Geoffrey Manning Bawa : decolonizing architecture, The National Trust Sri Lanka, NA1510.63.B39 J35 2017

Mehrotra, Rahul, Architecture in India since 1990, Pictor; Hatje Cantz, NA1504 .M44 2011

Mehta, Vandini, et al, The structure : works of Mahendra Raj, Park Books, TA157 .S77 2016

Prakash, Vikramaditya, Chandigarh's Le Corbusier : the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India, University of Washington Press, NA1508.C44 P73 2002 

Prakash, Vikramaditya, Onecontinuousline : art, architecture and urbanism of Aditya Prakash, Mapin, NA1510.P73 P732 2020

Rewal, Raj, et al., Raj Rewal : innovative architecture and tradition, Om Books International, NA1510.R48 R35 2013

Robson, David G., Geoffrey Bawa : the complete works, Thames & Hudson, NA1510.63.B39 R63 2002 

Stierli, Martino, et al (editors), The project of independence : architectures of decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985, The Museum of Modern Art, NA1500 .P765 2022

 

ASIA, SOUTHEAST

Chua, Lawrence, Bangkok utopia : modern architecture and Buddhist felicities, 1910-1973, University of Hawai'i Press, HT169.T52 B3634 2021

Davison, Julian, Balinese architecture : a guide to traditional and modern design, Tuttle, NA1526.6 .B34D3 1999

Loo, Yat Ming, Architecture and urban form in Kuala Lumpur : race and Chinese spaces in a postcolonial city, Routledge, NA2543.N38 L66 2013

Phú Vinh, Phòam, Poetic significance : Sài Gòn mid-century modernist architecture, Architecture Vietnam Books, NA1514.2.H6 P48 2021

Schenck, Mel, Southern Vietnamese modernist architecture : mid-century vernacular modernism, Architecture Vietnam Books, NA1513 .S35 S6 2020

SEAARC Symposium, Southeast Asia's modern architecture : questions of translation, epistemology, and power, National University of Singapore, NA1511 .S43 2015

 

CENTRAL / EASTERN / BALTIC EUROPE & RUSSIA

Drçemaitçe, Marija, Baltic modernism : architecture and housing in Soviet Lithuania, DOM, NA1455.L57 D74 2017

Makaryk, Irene Rima & Virlana Tkacz (editors), Modernism in Kyiv : Kiev/Kyïv/Kiev/Kijów/òKieòv : jubilant experimentation, University of Toronto Press, NX456.5.M64 M62 2010

Meuser, Philipp, Galina Balashova : architect of the Soviet space programme, DOM Publishers, TL875 .M4813 2022

Miljaécki, Ana, The optimum imperative : Czech architecture for the socialist lifestyle, 1938-1968, Routledge, NA2543.S6 M555 2017

Rauhut, Christoph, Fragments of metropolis East : the expressionist heritage in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hirmer, NA958.5.E93 R38 2018

Stanek, Lukasz, Architecture in global socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, Princeton University Press, NA680 .S79 2020

Vronskaya, Alla, Architecture of life : Soviet modernism and the human sciences, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.S35 V76 2022

 

MID-EAST (WEST / SOUTHWEST ASIA)

Arbid, George & Philipp Oswalt (editors), Designing modernity : architecture in the Arab world, 1945-1973, Jovis, NA1465.3 .D47 2022

Bani-Masoud, Amir, Contemporary architecture in Iran : from 1925 to the present, [independently published], NA1480 .B36 2021

Bozdoægan, Sibel, Modernism and nation building : Turkish architectural culture in the early republic / Sibel Bozdoægan, University of Washington Press, NA1368 .B69 2001

Gitler, Inbal Ben-Asher & Anat Geva, Israel as a modern architectural experimental lab, 1948-1978, Intellect, NA1477 .I87 2020

Stephan, Regina (editor), More than Bauhaus : the architecture of the White City Tel Aviv, Spurbuchverlag, NA1478.T45 M67 2019

 

NORDIC (SCANDINAVIA)

Åhrén, Uno, et al., Modern Swedish design : three founding texts, Museum of Modern Art, NK1461.A1 M63 2008

Koja, Stephan (editor), Nordic dawn : modernism's awakening in Finland, 1890-1920, Prestel, N7255.F5 N67 2005

 

OCEANIA & PACIFIC ISLANDS

Architects Hawaii Limited, Land, sea, shelter, culture : AHL and a story of modern architecture in Hawai'i, Oro Editions, NA737.A73 A4 2022

Van der Plaat, Deborah & John MacArthur, Karl Langer : modern architect and migrant in the Australian tropics, Bloomsbury, NA1605.L37 K37 2022

 

OTHER TOPICS (NON-SPECIFIC REGIONS)

ARCHAEOLOGY

Nitschke, Jessica L. & Marta Lorenzon (editors), Postcolonialism, heritage, and the built environment : new approaches to architecture in archaeology, Springer, CC175 .P67 2020

 

ARCHITECTURE, MODERN

Lim, William S.W. & Jiat-Hwee Chan, Non West modernist past : on architecture & modernities, World Scientific Pub., NA682.M66 N663 2011

Stanek, Lukasz, Architecture in global socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, Princeton University Press, NA680 .S79 2020

LOS ANGELES 

ARCHITECTURE

Cusack, Victor A. & Harrison Lewis Whitney,  A symbol of Los Angeles : the history of the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport 1952-1961, Donning Co. Publishers, Library Office - NA6303.L67 C87 2005

 

ARTS & CULTURE

Barnet-Sánchez, Holly & Tim Drescher, Give me life : iconography and identity in East LA murals, University of New Mexico Press, 2016 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Ben Salah, Myriam, et al, Made in L.A. 2020 : a version, Hammer Museum, N6530.C22 L673 2020

Black, Liza, Picturing Indians : Native Americans in film, 1941-1960, University of Nebraska Press, 2020 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Butler, Cornelia H. & Michael Ned Holte, Made in L.A. 2014, Delmonico, N6496.L66 H363 2014

Curtis, Erin M., ¡Murales rebeldes! : L.A. Chicana/Chicano murals under siege, Angel City Press, ND2638.L67 M87 2017

García, Ramón, Ricardo Valverde, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, TR655 .V354 2013

Gonzalez, Martha, Chican@ artivistas : music, community, and transborder tactics in East Los Angeles, University of Texas Press, ML3917.U6 G69 2020

Greenwald, Diana Seave (editor), Betye Saar : heart of a wanderer, Princeton University Press, N6490 .S22 A4 2023

Horowitz, Wendy & Christina Rice (editors), From pop to the pit : LAPL photo collection celebrates the Los Angeles music scene, 1978-1989, Photo Friends, Los Angeles Public Library, TR6.U62 L489 2014

Indych-López, Anna, Judith F. Baca, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, N6537.B13 I53 2018

Kim, Christine Y. & Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews, Black American portraits : from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, N7593 .B533 2023

Kun, Josh (editor), The tide was always high : the music of Latin America in Los Angeles, University of California Press, ML3477.8.L67 T53 2017

López-Calvo, Ignacio, Latino Los Angeles in film and fiction : the cultural production of social anxiety, University of Arizona Press, PS153.M4 L68 2011

Quinn, Eithne, A piece of the action : race and labor in post-civil rights Hollywood, Columbia University Press, 2020 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

McEnteer, James, Acting like it matters : John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department, Streetwise Press, HV4506.L67 M34 2015

Schrank, Sarah, Art and the city : civic imagination and cultural authority in Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Viertel, Salka, The kindness of strangers, New York Review Books, 2019 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Zanfagna, Christina, Holy hip hop in the City of Angels, University of California Press, ML3921.8.R36 Z36 2017

 

BIOGRAPHIES

Martínez, Óscar, The Hollywood kid : the violent life and violent death of an MS-13 hitman, Verso, HV6439.S2 M3813 2019

 

COMMUNITIES

Chan, Felicity Hwee-Hwa, Tensions in diversity : spaces for collective life in Los Angeles, University of Toronto Press, HT185 .C43 2022

Chang, Edward T. & Russell C. Leong, Los Angeles-- struggles toward multiethnic community : Asian American, African American & Latino perspectives, University of Washington Press, 1994 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Fujii, Takashi (director), Omai Fa'atasi : Samoa mo Samoa, Visual Communications, E184 .S12 O424 1978 (DVD)

Gonzalez, Jerry, In search of the Mexican Beverly Hills : Latino suburbanization in postwar Los Angeles, Rutgers University Press, F869.L89 M5172 2018

Kelley, Ron (editor), Irangeles : Iranians in Los Angeles, University of California Press, F869.L89 I55 1993

Kubo, Duane & Robert A. Nakamura (directors), Hito hata : raise the banner, Visual Communications, F869 .L86 L585 1995 (DVD)

Molina, Natalia, A place at the Nayarit : how a Mexican restaurant nourished a community, University of California Press, TX909.2.C22 N39 2022

Monroy, Douglas, Rebirth : Mexican Los Angeles from the great migration to the Great Depression, University of California Press, F869.L89 M455 1999

Ocampo, Anthony Christian, Brown and gay in LA : the lives of immigrant sons, New York University Press, HQ76.2.U52 C263 2022

Wilson, Karen S., Jews in the Los Angeles mosaic, Autry National Center of the American West; University of California Press, F869.L89 J5516 2013

 

EDUCATION

Garcia, Antero, Good reception : teens, teachers, and mobile media in a Los Angeles high school, MIT Press, 2017 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

HISTORIES

Anolik, Lili, Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A., Scribner, PS3552.A244 Z54 2019

Brownstein, Ronald, Rock me on the water : 1974 the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics, Harper, F869.L857 B78 2021

McEnteer, James, Acting like it matters : John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department, Streetwise Press, HV4506.L67 M34 2015

Mingé, Jeanine, Concrete and dust : mapping the sexual terrains of Los Angeles, Routledge, HQ18.U5 M56 2013

Morrison, Patt, Río L.A. : tales from the Los Angeles River, Angel City Press, F868.L8 M75 2022

Rifkind, Donna, The sun and her stars : Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood, Other Press, 2019 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Sanchez, George J., Boyle Heights : how a Los Angeles neighborhood became the future of American democracy, University of California Press, F869.B69 S26 2021

Song, Min, Strange future : pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Duke University Press, F869.L89 A27 2005

Stevens, Errol Wayne, Radical L. A. : from Coxey's Army to the Watts Riots, 1894-1965, University of Oklahoma Press, HN90.R3 S637 2023

 

HOUSING & CITY PLANNING

Anderton, Frances, Common ground : multifamily housing in Los Angeles, Angel City Press, NA735.L55 A53 2022

Chan, Felicity Hwee-Hwa, Tensions in diversity : spaces for collective life in Los Angeles, University of Toronto Press, HT185 .C43 2022

Gibbons, Andrea, City of segregation : one hundred years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles, Verso, HD7288.76.U52 L6734 2018

Mandel, Jennifer, The coveted Westside : how the Black homeowners' rights movement shaped modern Los Angeles, University of Nevada Press, HD7288.76.U52 M355 2022

 

PHILOSOPHY

Kent, Corita, New rules next week : Corita Kent's legacy through the eyes of twenty artists and writers, Chronicle Books, NE2237.5.K4 N49 2023

 

POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, SOCIAL CONDITIONS

Hurewitz, Daniel, Bohemian Los Angeles and the making of modern politics, University of California Press, F869.L86 E24 2007 (ebook also available via Proquest Ebook Central)

Klein, Norman M. & Martin J. Schiesl (editors), 20th Century Los Angeles : power, promotion, and social conflict, Regina Books, F869.L89 T84 1990

 

CALIFORNIA & THE WEST

ARCHITECTURE

Durrett, Charles & Jinglin Yang, A solution to homelessness in your town : Valley View Senior Housing, Napa County, California, ORO Editions, NA687 .D87 2021

Sewall, Jock, California mission architecture : a survey and sourcebook, Schiffer Books, F862 .S49 2012

 

ARTS & CULTURE

Bell, Eugenia (editor), Mary Corse, Inventory Press, ND237.C758 A4 2017 (American artist associated with California's Light and Space movement)

Bennahum, Ninotchka, et al, Radical bodies : Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972, University of California Press, GV1785.A1 R23 2017

Duncan, Michael, Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group, Crocker Art Museum, ND230.N38 D86 2021

Frieling, Rudolf, et al, editors, Suzanne Lacy : we are here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, N6537.L26 A4 2019

LaSalle, Mick, Dream state : California in the movies, Heyday, PN1995.9.C325 L37 2021

Lehmann, Annette Jael, et al (editors), Tacit knowledge. Post studio ; Tacit knowledge. Feminism : California Institute of the Arts 1970-77, Spector Books, N6488.G3 H368 2019

Manthorne, Katherine (editor), California Mexicana : missions to murals, 1820-1930, Laguna Art Museum, N8214.5.U6 C345 2017

Sorkin, Jenni, Art in California, Thames & Hudson, N6530.C2 S58 2021

 

BIOGRAPHIES / PERSONAL NARRATIVES

Beebe, Rose Marie, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo : Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California, University of Oklahoma Press, 2023 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Moser, Patrick, Surf and rescue : George Freeth and the birth of California beach culture, University of Illinois Press, GV838.F744 M67 2022

Selvin, Joel, Hollywood Eden : electric guitars, fast cars, and the myth of the California paradise, Anansi, ML394 .S443 2021

Smith, Barbara Turner, The way to be : a memoir, Getty Publications, NX512.S638 A2 2023 (On the life and work of performance artist Barbara T. Smith.)

 

BORDER REGION

Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya, Unsettled borders : the militarized science of surveillance on sacred indigenous land, Duke University Press, JV6475 .S525 2022

 

COMMUNITIES

Bauer, William J., Jr., California through Native eyes : reclaiming history, University of Washington Press, E78.C15 B3225 2016

De Graaf, Lawrence, et al (editors), Seeking El Dorado : African Americans in California, University of Washington Press, 2001 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Golla, Victor, California Indian languages, University of California Press, PM501.C2 G65 2022 (also available as an E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Haas, Lisbeth, Saints and citizens : indigenous histories of colonial missions and Mexican California, University of California Press, E78.C15 H225 2014

Hayes-Bautista, David E., La nueva California : Latinos from pioneers to post-millennials, University of California Press, F870.S75 H385 2017

Hinton, Leanne, Flutes of fire : an introduction to Native California languages, Heyday, PM501.C2 H56 2022

Nakamura, Bob (director), Manzanar, Visual Communications, D769.8.A6 M35 2006 (DVD)

Rizzo-Martinez, Martin, We Are Not Animals : Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, University of Nebraska Press, 2022 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central) 

Taylor, Quintard, In search of the racial frontier : African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990, Norton, E185.925 .T39 1998

 

DECORATIVE ARTS / DESIGN

Grossman, Greta Magnusson, Greta Magnusson Grossman : furniture and lighting : October 17--November 6, 2008, Drawing Center, NA7235.C22 G747 2008

 

ENVIRONMENT

Cairns, Kathleen A., At home in the world : California women and the postwar environmental movement, University of Nebraska Press, 2021 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Voyles, Traci Brynne, The settler sea : California's Salton Sea and the consequences of colonialism, University of Nebraska Press, 2021 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

HISTORIES

Aron, Stephen, Peace and friendship : an alternative history of the American West, Oxford University Press, 2022 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Beebe, Rose Marie, Junípero Serra : California, Indians, and the transformation of a missionary, University of Oklahoma Press, 2015 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Castillo-Muñoz, Verónica, The other California : land, identity and politics on the Mexican borderlands, University of California Press, F1246 .C195 2017

Crosby, Harry W., Californio Portraits : Baja California's Vanishing Culture, University of Oklahoma Press, F1246 .C729 2015

Dearinger, Ryan, The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West, University of California Press, HD8039.C2582 U62 2016

Faragher, John Mack,  California : an American history, Yale University Press, 2022 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hyslop, Stephen G., Contest for California: From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest, University of Oklahoma Press, 2012 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Pfaelzer, Jean, California, a slave state, Yale University Press, E445.C2 P434 2023

Rice, Richard B., et al, The elusive Eden : a new history of California, Waveland Press, F861 .R49 2020

 

LITERATURE

Aranda, José F., The places of modernity in early Mexican American literature, 1848-1948, University of Nebraska Press, 2022 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

Balance, Christine Bacareza & Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (editors), California dreaming : movement and place in the Asian American imaginary, University of Hawaiʻi Press, PS508.A8 C35 2020

 

POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

Kaplan, Ilee & Carol A. Wells (editors), Peace Press graphics 1967-1987 : art in the pursuit of social change, University Art Museum, California State University; Center for the Study of Political Graphics, NC1849.P42 P43 2011

Loftis, Anne, Witnesses to the struggle : imaging the 1930s California labor movement, University of Nevada Press, 1998 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

RECREATION / LEISURE

Jefferson, Alison R., Living the California dream : African American leisure sites during the Jim Crow era, University of Nebraska Press, 2020 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

ACCESSIBILITY

Dokumaç, Arseli, Activist affordances : how disabled people improvise more habitable worlds, Duke University Press, HV1568 .D64 2023

 

ARCHITECTURE

Chang, Jiat-Hwee, A genealogy of tropical architecture : colonial networks, nature and technoscience, Routledge, NA2542.T7 C48 2016

Crouch, Dora P. & June G. Johnson, Traditions in architecture : Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania, Oxford University, NA208 .C75 2001

Ekici, Didem, et al (editors), Textile in architecture : from the Middle Ages to modernism, Routledge, NA2542.6 .T49 2023

Golden, Elizabeth, Building from tradition : local materials and methods in contemporary architecture, Routledge, NA687 .G65 2018

Jorgensen, Hemming, Ice houses of Iran : where, how, why, Mazda Publishers, NA8350 .J67 2012

Larsen, Lynne Ann Ellsworth, Dahomey's royal architecture : an earthen record of construction, subjugation, and reclamation, Routledge, NA1599.D32 A26 2023

Manasc, Vivian, Old stories, new ways : conversations about an architecture inspired by Indigenous ways of knowing, Red Crow College, NA749.5.A54 M36 2020

McGillick, Paul, The sustainable Asian house, Tuttle Publishing, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Memmott, Paul, Gunyah Goondie + Wurley : the Aboriginal architecture of Australia, Thames & Hudson, NA1600 .M46 2023

Memmott, Paul, et al (editors), Design and the vernacular : interpretations for contemporary architectural practice and theory, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, NA1511 .D47 2023

Zhu, Jianfei, Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture : Social Production of Buildings and Spaces in History, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

Brown, Azby, The genius of Japanese carpentry : the secrets of a craft, Tuttle Publishing, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Jayanetti, Lionel, Timber pole construction, Intermediate Technology, TA666 .J39 1990

Kissi, Ernest, Emerging Debates in the Construction Industry : The Developing Nations' Perspective, CRC Press LLC, 2023 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Mudgirls Natural Building Collective, Mudgirls manifesto : handbuilt homes, handcrafted lives, New Society Publishers, 2018 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Tognon, Alisia & Luca Trabattoni, Necessary architecture : raw earth solutions for a common house in Niger, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Zwerger, Klaus, Wood and wood joints : building traditions in Europe, Japan and China, Birkhäuser, TH2301 .Z9413 2023

 

CLIMATE & ARCHITECTURE

Barber, Daniel A., Modern architecture and climate : design before air conditioning, Princeton University Press, NA2541 .B37 2020

 

DECORATIVE ARTS & ARTISANS

Guth, Christine, Craft culture in early modern Japan : materials, makers, and mastery, University of California Press, N7353.5 .G884 2021

Moser, Jeffrey, Nominal things : bronzes in the making of medieval China, University of Chicago Press, NK7983 .M67 2023

Rarey, Matthew Francis, Insignificant things : amulets and the art of survival in the early Black Atlantic, Duke University Press, NK1080 .R36 2023

 

ETHNOBOTANY (Traditional botanical knowledge)

Blue Spruce, Duane & Tanya Thrasher (editors), Land Has Memory : Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, University of North Carolina Press, 2008 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Geniusz, Wendy Djinn, Our knowledge is not primitive : decolonizing botanical Anishinaabe teachings, Syracuse University Press, E99.C6 G647 2023

 

ETHNOECOLOGY (Traditional ecological knowledge)

Edington, John M., Indigenous environmental knowledge : reappraisal, Springer International Publishing AG, 2017 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

HISTORIES

Mills, Peter R., Connecting the kingdom : sailing vessels in the early Hawaiian monarchy, 1790-1840, University of Hawai'i Press, DU627 .M55 2023

Urwin, Chris, Pacific Islands Archaeology. Building and Remembering : An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea's South Coast, University of Hawaii Press, 2022 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

INDUSTRIES / LABOR / LAND USE

Brown, Azby, The genius of Japanese carpentry : the secrets of a craft, Tuttle Publishing, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Declercq, Robrecht, et al (editors), Born with a copper spoon : a global history of copper, 1830-1980, University of British Columbia Press, HD9539.C6 B67 2022

Doherty, Jacob, Waste worlds : inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability, University of California Press, HD4485.U332 K36 2022

Ross, Andrew, Stone men : the Palestinians who built Israel, Verso, 2019 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Visser, Deirdre, Joinery, joists and gender : a history of woodworking for the 21st century, Routledge, HD8039.W6 V57 2022

 

LANDSCAPE

Blue Spruce, Duane & Tanya Thrasher (editors), Land Has Memory : Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, University of North Carolina Press, 2008 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Jones, David S. (editor), Learning country in landscape architecture : Indigenous knowledge systems, respect and appreciation, Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2021 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

MATERIAL CULTURE

Boivin, Nicole, Material cultures, material minds : the impact of things on human thought, society, and evolution, Cambridge University Press, GN406 .B65 2008 

 

MATERIALS

Boivin, Nicole & Mary Ann Owoc, Soils, stones and symbols : cultural perceptions of the mineral world, UCL; Cavendish Publishing, QE359.A1 S65 2004

Chirikure, Shadreck, Metals in past societies : a global perspective on indigenous African metallurgy, Springer International Publishing AG, 2015 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Dean, Carolyn, A culture of stone : Inka perspectives on rock, Duke University Press, 2010 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Harries, Kent A. & Bhavna Sharma (editors), Nonconventional and vernacular construction materials : characterisation, properties and applications, Elsevier Science & Technology, 2016 (via Proquest Ebook Central) 

Lucas, Susanne, Bamboo, Reaktion Books, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Oldershaw, Cally, Stones : a material and cultural history, Reaktion Books, QE359.A1 O43 2023

Salmon, Xavier & Victor Hundsbuckler (editors), Stories of paper, Louvre Abu Dhabi, TS1083.U52 A286 2022

Varuni, Ritu-Ngapnon, The Apatani way of life : shaping a culture through bamboo, cane and land use, Routledge, DS432.A6 V37 2023

 

PHILOSOPHY

Statman, Alexander, A global enlightenment : Western progress and Chinese science, University of Chicago Press, B802 .S735 2023

 

RESEARCH METHODS

Kovach, Margaret, Indigenous methodologies : characteristics, conversations, and contexts, University of Toronto Press, 2021 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Decolonizing methodologies : research and Indigenous peoples, Zed Books, GN380 .S65 2012

Wilson, Shawn, Research is ceremony : Indigenous research methods, Fernwood Publishing, GN380 .W554 2008

 

SOCIAL HISTORY & CONDITIONS

Fehérváry, Krisztina, Politics in color and concrete : socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary, Indiana University Press, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

SURVEILLANCE

Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya, Unsettled borders : the militarized science of surveillance on sacred indigenous land, Duke University Press, JV6475 .S525 2022

 

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY

Farrar, Tarikhu, Precolonial African material culture : combatting stereotypes of technological backwardness, Lexington Books, T28.A357 F377 2020

Fugill, Clive, Te toki me te whao : the story and use of Måaori tools, Oratia, DU423.I4 .F85 2016

Kennedy, Brook S., Reimagining alternative technology for design in the 21st century, Routledge, T173.8 .K458 2023

Pacey, Arnold & Francesca Bray, Technology in world civilization : a thousand-year history, MIT Press, 2021 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

For resources specific to speculative design, world building, and future cities, plus related themes and issues, please see the Kappe Library Science fiction resource guide.

 

AFROFUTURISM

Anderson, Reynaldo & Charles E. Jones (editors), Afrofuturism 2.0 : the rise of astro-blackness, Lexington Books, CB235 .A35 2016

Drew, Kimberly & Jenna Wortham, Black futures, One World, CB235 .B595 2020

Smith, Aaron X. (editor), Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism : toward Afrocentric Futurism, University Press of Mississippi, DT15 .A376 2023

Strait, Kevin M. & Kinshasha Conwill (editors), Afrofuturism : a history of Black futures, Smithsonian Books, CB235 .A348 2023

Womack, Ytasha, Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture, Lawrence Hill Books, PN3433.5 .W66 2013 (also available as an ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING

Barton, Gem (editor), Experimental realism : (design) fictions and futures, RIBA Publishing, NA209.5 .E97 2022

Maas, Winy & Tihamer Salij, Hong Kong fantasies : challenging world-class city standards, NAI Publishers, HT169.H85 H664 2011

 

ART / ARTISTS

Aranke, Sampada & Dan Nadel (editors), Mike Henderson : before the fire, 1965-1985, University of California Press, ND237.H447 A4 2022

Bolster, George, When will we recognize us, Hirmer Verlag GmbH, N6537.B5865 A4 2023

Demos, T. J., Radical futurisms : ecologies of collapse, chronopolitics and justice-to-come, Sternberg Press, N8217.F87 D45 2023

Eshun, Ekow, In the Black fantastic, The MIT Press, NX164.B55 E84 2022

Fehlbaum, Rolf & Fifo Stricker (editors), Robots 1:2, Vitra Design Museum, NK9509.6.F45 R63 2022

Gunkel, Henriette & Ayesha Hameed, Time travel, Sternberg Press, N72.H58 G86 2021

Hanson, Dian, Masterpieces of fantasy art, Taschen, N8217.F28 H26 2023

Kholeif, Omar (editor, curator), Art in the age of anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, Mörel, N72.T4 A773 2020

Montross, Sarah J., Past futures : science fiction, space travel, and postwar art of the Americas, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, MIT Press, N8239.S66 P37 2015

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Indigenous futurisms : transcending past/present/future, MoCNA, N6351.2.I53 M88 2020

Parkinson, Gavin, Futures of surrealism : myth, science fiction and fantastic art in France, 1936-1969, Yale University Press, NX456.5.S8 P37 2015

Rowe, Adam, Worlds beyond time : sci-fi art of The 1970s, Abrams, Inc., NX650.S3 R69 2022

Timberlake, John, Landscape and the science fiction imaginary, Intellect Books, N8239.S66 T56 2018

Vishmidt, Marina (editor), Speculation, MIT Press, N8600 .S683 2022

 

ART & SOCIETY

Cacchione, Orianna, et al, (editors), Imaginable worlds : art, crisis, and global futures, Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago), N72.S6 I43 2022

 

BIOGRAPHIES

Corbett, John, et al (curators), Pathways to unknown worlds : Sun-Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-futurist underground 1954-68, WhiteWalls, ML410.S978 P3 2006

Nevala-Lee, Alec, Inventor of the future : the visionary life of Buckminster Fuller, Dey St., TA140.F9 N47 2022

Szwed, John F., Space is the place : the lives and times of Sun Ra, Duke University Press, ML410.S978 S73 2020

Youngquist, Paul, A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism, University of Texas Press, 2016 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

Lee, Clifford, Code for what? : computer science for storytelling and social justice, MIT Press, QA76.27 .L429 2022

Malazita, James, Enacting platforms : feminist technoscience and the Unreal Engine, MIT Press, QA76.76.V54 M35 2024

 

COOKING / FOOD WAYS

Cerpina, Zane, The anthropocene cookbook : recipes and opportunities for future catastrophes, The MIT Press, TX714 .C457 2022

 

COSMOLOGY / PHYSICS

Alexander, Stephon, Fear of a black universe : an outsider's guide to the future of physics, Basic Books, QB981 .A538 2021

 

CYBERPUNK CULTURE

Murphy, Graham J. & Lars Schmeink (editors), Cyberpunk and visual culture, Routledge, HM647 .C93 2018

Shurin, Jared (editor), The big book of cyberpunk, Vintage Books, PN6120.95.S33 B48 2023

 

DANCE

Osumare, Halifu, Dancing the Afrofuture : hula, hip-hop, and the Dunham legacy, University Press of Florida, GV1603 .O78 2024

 

DESIGN

Hiesinger, Kathryn B., et al (editors), Designs for different futures, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Press, NK1397 .D483 2019

Subrahmanian, Eswaran, et al, We are not users: dialogues, diversity, and design, MIT Press, NK1510 .S83 2020

 

FASHION / COSTUMES

Carter, Ruth E., The art of Ruth E. Carter : costuming Black history and the Afro-future, from Do the right thing to Black Panther, Chronicle Books, TT505.C3757 A3 2023

 

FORECASTING

Getachew, Adom, et al (Editors), Imagining global futures, Boston Review, H61.4 .I534 2022

 

FUTURE CITIES

Bunnell, Tim & Daniel P.S. Goh (editors), Urban Asias : essays on futurity past and present, Jovis, HT169.A78 U72 2018

 

GAME HISTORIES

Gingold, Chaim, Building SimCity : how to put the world in a machine, MIT Press, HT165.5 .G56 2024

 

HISTORIES

Odom, Brian C., NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement, University Press of Florida, 2019 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Zamalin, Alex, Black utopia : the history of an idea from black nationalism to Afrofuturism, Columbia University Press, 2019

 

IMAGINARY PLACES

Brown, Matt & Rhys B. Davies, Atlas of imagined cities : who lives where in TV, books, games and movies? Batsford, GR940 .B7696 2023

 

MUSIC / MUSICIANS

Corbett, John, et al (curators), Pathways to unknown worlds : Sun-Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-futurist underground 1954-68, WhiteWalls, ML410.S978 P3 2006

Hassler-Forest, Dan, Janelle Monáe's queer afrofuturism : defying every label, Rutgers University Press, ML420.M5582 H37 2022

Szwed, John F., Space is the place : the lives and times of Sun Ra, Duke University Press, ML410.S978 S73 2020

 

RELIGION

Jean-Marie, Vivaldi, An ethos of Blackness : Rastafari cosmology, culture, and consciousness, Columbia University Press, BL2532.R37 J43 2023

 

SCIENCE FICTION : MASS MEDIA

Addey, David, Typeset in the future : typography and design in science fiction movies, Abrams, PN1995.9.S26 A33 2018

Madhubuti, Haki R. & Herb Boyd, Black panther : paradigm shift or not? : a collection of reviews and essays on a blockbuster film, Third World Press Foundation, PN1997.2.B581 B53 2019

Marques, Pedro Neves (editor), YWY, searching for a character between future worlds : gender, ecology, science fiction, Sternberg Press, N7133.M37 Y89 2021

Reagin, Nancy Ruth (editor), Star Trek and history, Wiley, PN1992.8.S74 S726 2013

Rickman, Gregg (editor), The science fiction film reader, Limelight Editions, PN1995.9.S26 R53 2004

Roh, David S., et al (editors), Techno-Orientalism : imagining Asia in speculative fiction, history, and media, Rutgers University Press, PN3433.6 .T43 2015

 

SCIENCE FICTION : SOCIAL ASPECTS

Gateward, Frances K. & John Jennings (editors), The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art, Rutgers University Press, PN6725 .B57 2015

Hoagland, Ericka & Reema Sarwal (editors), Science fiction, imperialism and the Third World : essays on postcolonial literature and film, McFarland & Co., PS374.S35 S335 2010

Womack, Ytasha, Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture, Chicago Review Press, 2013 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

SCIENCE FICTION : SPECULATIVE FICTION

Allan, Kathryn (editor), Disability in science fiction : representations of technology as cure, Palgrave Macmillan, PN3433.6 .D57 2013

Balåasim, Hasan, et al (editors), Iraq + 100 : stories from a century after the invasion, Comma Press, PJ8046.5.E5 I73 2016

Baudemann, Kristina, The future imaginary in Indigenous North American arts and literatures, Routledge, PS153.I52 B38 2022

Campbell, Bill & Edward Austin Hall (editors), Mothership : tales from afrofuturism and beyond, Rosarium Publishing, PN6120.95.S33 M67 2013

Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (editor, translator), The inhumans and other stories : a selection of Bengali science fiction, MIT Press, PK1716.5.E5I54 2024

Dillon, Grace L. (editor), Walking the clouds : an anthology of indigenous science fiction, University of Arizona Press, PS648.S3 W35 2012

Ghalayini, Basma (editor), Palestine + 100, Deep Vellum, 2022 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hamilton, Denise (editor), Speculative Los Angeles, Akashic Books, PS648.S3 S614 2021

Jameson, Fredric, Archaeologies of the future : the desire called utopia and other science fictions, Verso, PS648.S3 J36 2007

Little, Judith A. (editor), Feminist philosophy and science fiction : utopias and dystopias, Prometheus Books, PS374.S35 F47 2007

Mehan, Uppinder & Nalo Hopkinson, So long been dreaming : postcolonial science fiction & fantasy, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina & B.V. Olguín (editors), Altermundos : Latin@ speculative literature, film, and popular culture, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, PS153.H56 A59 2017

Shurin, Jared (editor), The big book of cyberpunk, Vintage Books, PN6120.95.S33 B48 2023

Thomas, Sheree R. (editor), Dark matter : a century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, Warner Books, PS648.S3 D37 2000

VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff (editors), Sisters of the revolution : a feminist speculative fiction anthology, PM Press, 2015 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Yaszek, Lisa (editor), The future is female! : more classic science fiction stories by women: volume two: the 1970s, Library of America, 2023 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

 

SOCIAL HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE

Berardi, Franco, After the future, AK Press, HN17.5 .B47 2011

 

SPACE EXPLORATION & COLONIZATION

McGuirk, Justin, et al (editors), Moving to Mars : design for the red planet, The Design Museum, QB641 .M885 2019

Reimann, Fabian, Space colonies : a galactic freeman's journal, Spector Books, N8246.S63 R45 2017

Scharmen, Fred, Space settlements, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, TL795.7 .S33 2019

Sinclair, Stewart Lawrence, Space rover, Bloomsbury, TL475 .S56 2024

Weinersmith, Kelly & Zach, A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? Penguin Press, TL790 .W45 2023

 

TECHNOLOGY

Benjamin, Ruha, Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code, Polity, HN90.I56 B46 2019

Dery, Mark (editor), Flame wars : the discourse of cyberculture, Duke University Press, QA76.9.C66 F55 1994

Dunne, Anthony & Fiona Raby, Design noir : the secret life of electronic objects, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, N72.E53 D86 2021

Hester, Helen, Xenofeminism, Polity, HQ1155 .H47 2018

Kholeif, Omar (editor, curator), Art in the age of anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, Mörel, N72.T4 A773 2020

Lobel, Orly, The equality machine : harnessing digital technology for a brighter, more inclusive future, PublicAffairs, HF5549.5.M5 L59 2022

Shew, Ashley, Against technoableism : rethinking who needs improvement, W.W. Norton & Company, HV1568 .S54 2023

Steele, Catherine Knight, Digital Black feminism, New York University Press, HQ1178 .S74 2021

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Anderson, Ho Che, Godhead, Fantagraphics Books, PN6727.A527 G632 2022 vols.1 & 2

Benassaya, Romain, Project Arka : into the dark unknown, Humanoids, PN6747 .B4637 2023

Ellis, Grace & Hannah Templer, Flung out of space : inspired by the indecent adventures of Patricia Highsmith, Abrams ComicArts, PN6727.E4454 F57 2022

Genefort, Laurent, Sap hunters, Humanoids, PQ2667.E473 .S27 2023

Guillory, Rob, Mosely, Boom! Studios, PN6728 .M6745 2023

Hickman, Jonathan, Decorum, Image Comics, PN6728.D364 H53 2022

Hickman, Jonathan, East of West, Image Comics, PN6728.E27 H53 2013 vols.1 & 2

Holt, Jeremy, Made in Korea, Image Comics, PN6728.M3343 H56 2022 vol.1

Howard, Sheena C., Encyclopedia of Black comics, Fulcrum Publishing, PN6707 .H69 2017

Jodorowsky, Alejandro, The Incal, Humanoids, PN6747.J63 I5313 2014

Jodorowsky, Alejandro, The Jodorowsky library. Final incal ; After the incal ; Weapons of the metabaron ; Metabarons genesis: castaka ; selected short stories, Humanoids, PN6747.J63 A6 2022

Jones, Sebastian A., Niobe. Vol. 2, She is death, Stranger Comics, PN6727 .J664 2020

Jones, Sebastian A., The untamed. Vol. 2. Killing floor, Stranger Comics, PN6728.U58 J664 2017

Kaplan, Zack, Metal society, Image Comics, PN6728.M425 K37 2022

Kaplan, Zack, Break out, Dark Horse Books, PN6728.B673 K37 2023

Kotian, Siddharth, Beneath an alien sky. Vol. 1. Rocketship Entertainment, PN6728.B464 K68 2022

LaValle, Victor, Destroyer, BOOM! Studios, PN6728.V53 L38 2017

LaValle, Victor, Eve, BOOM! Studios, PN6728.E8558 L38 2022 vols. 1 & 2

Mercado, Yehudi, Rocket Salvage, Roar, PN6728.R6348 M47 2018

Miranda, Inaki, We live. Vol. 1, Aftershock Comics, PN6728.W4 M57 2022

Monteys, Albert, Universe!, Image Comics, PN6777.M66 U5513 2021

Nocenti, Ann & David Aja, The seeds : a graphic tale in four acts, Berger Books, PN6728.S425 N63 2020

Otomo, Katsuhiro, Akira. Book 1, Kodansha Comics, PN6790.J34 A4513 2009

Ottaviani, Jim, Astronauts : women on the final frontier, First Second Books, TL789.85.A1O88 2020

Pak, Greg, Mech Cadets. Book one, BOOM! Studios, PN6728.M396 P35 2023

Paknadel, Alex, Giga. Vol. 1, Vault, PZ7.7 .P152 2023

Pope, Paul, 100%, Image Comics, PN6727.P665 A15 2020

Pope, Paul, Heavy liquid, Image Comics, PN6728.H379 P675 2019

Remender, Rick, Black science compendium, Image Comics, PN6728.B51936 R46 2023

Remender, Rick, Tokyo ghost. Volume one, The atomic garden, Image Comics, PN6727.R389 T6566 2016 vol.1

Remender, Rick, Tokyo ghost. Volume two, Come join us, Image Comics, PN6727.R389 T6566 2016 vol.2

Ridley, John, The other history of the DC Universe, DC Comics, PN6728.O84 R53 2022

Shadmi, Koren, Bionic, Top Shelf Productions, PN6727.S464 B56 2020

Thomas, Brandon, Excellence. Volume one, Kill the past, Image Comics, PN6728.E87 T47 2022 vol.1

Thomas, Brandon, Excellence. Volume two, The present tense, Image Comics, PN6728.E87 T47 2022 vol.2

Vaughan, Brian K., We stand on guard, Image Comics, PN6728.W4 V38 2016

Vaughan, Brian K., et al, The private eye, Image Comics, PN6727.V387 P78 2015

Vaughan, Brian K., Saga, Image Comics, PN6727.V387 S24 2012 vols.1 & 2

Vaughan, Brian K., Paper girls, Image Comics, PN6728.P36 V39 2017 vols.1 & 2

The following is an acquisitions list for Kappe Library's “Contested Spaces” series, which focuses on regions currently being shaped by violence and heightened partisan disputation.  

For a complete list of books, articles, and open access resources selected for the series, see these KL Research Guides:

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ISRAEL-PALESTINE

ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING

Amiry, Suad, Peasant architecture in Palestine : space, kinship and gender, Riwaq, NA245.P34 .A26 2017

Bishåarah, Khaldåun & Suad Amiry (Editors), Reclaiming Space : the 50 village project on rural Palestine, Riwaq, NA109.W47 R43 2015

Nazzal, Rehab, Driving in Palestine, Fernwood Publishing, TR659.8 .N39 2023.

Sharif, Yara, Architecture of resistance : cultivating moments of possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, Routledge, NA2543.S6 S54 2017

Shoked, Noam, In the land of the patriarchs : design and contestation in West Bank settlements, University of Texas Press, NA7420.W47S56 2023.

Sorkin, Michael & Dean Sharp (Editors), Open Gaza, Terreform & The American University in Cairo Press, NA1478.G39 O64 2021 (Also available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia, Waste siege : the life of infrastructure in Palestine, Stanford University Press, HD4485.W47 S63 2020

Toukan, Oraib, Sundry Modernism: Materials for a study of Palestinian modernism, Sternberg Press, NA1477.T68 2017.

Weizman, Eyal, Hollow Land : Israel's Architecture of Occupation, Verso Books, 2012 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

 

ARTS & CULTURE

Ankori, Gannit, Palestinian Art, Reaktion Books, 2006 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Sabaaneh, Mohammad, Palestine in black and white, Saqi Books, NC1720.I75 S23 2018.

 

HABITATION-DISPLACEMENT

Griffiths, Mark & Mikko Joronen (Editors), Encountering Palestine : Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, University of Nebraska Press, 2023 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Katz, Irit, The common camp : architecture of power and resistance in Israel-Palestine, University of Minnesota Press, HV640.4.I75 K38 2022

Khalidi, Rashid, The hundred years' war on Palestine : a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017, Metropolitan Books, DS119.7.K4279 2020

 

ISRAEL-PALESTINE HISTORIES

Masalha, Nur, Palestine : a four thousand year history, I. B. Tauris, DS117.M375 2022

Vet, Annelys de  (Editor), Subjective atlas of Palestine, 010 Publishers, DS112.S89 2007

 

JEWISH-ARAB RELATIONS

Finkelstein, Norman, Gaza : An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, University of California Press, 2018 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

 

RUSSIA-UKRAINE

ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING

Breddels, Lilet, et al (Editors), Urban Coalition for Ukraine : strategies and proposals, Dom Publishers, HT169.U38 U73 2023

Bykov, Alex & Ievgeniia Gubkina, Soviet modernism, brutalism, post-modernism : buildings and structures in Ukraine 1955-1991, Osnovy Publishers; DOM Publishers, NA1188 .B95 2019.

Gubkina, Ievgeniia, Being a Ukrainian architect during wartime : essays, articles, interviews, and manifestos, DOM Publishers, NA1455.U47 G83 2023

Gubkina, Ievgeniia, Slavutych : architectural guide, Dom Publishers, NA1455.U472S538 2016

Malaia, Kateryna & Philipp Meuser, Mass housing in Ukraine : building typologies and catalogue of series : 1922-2022, Dom Publishers, NA7863.U38 M35 2023

Shyrochyn, Semën, Architectural guide : Kyiv, Dom Publishers, NA1455.U472 K958 2023

Treffers, Fulco, et al, A vision for Mariupol : the easternmost gateway of Europe, Dom Publishers, HT169.U382 M378 2023

 

ARTS & CULTURE

Akinsha, Konstantin, et al (Editors), In the eye of the storm : modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s, Thames & Hudson, N7255.U47 I5 2022

Ercolani, Giovanni, The Maidan Museum : preserving the spirit of Maidan : art, identity, and the revolution of dignity, Columbia University Press, AM70.U383 K93 2023 

Kurkov, Andreæi (Writer of forward), Treasures of Ukraine : a nation's cultural heritage, Thames & Hudson, N7255.U47 T74 2022

Makov, Pavlo, Pavlo Makov : fountain of exhaustion : Acqua alta, ist publishing, N7255.U473 M3492 2022

 

NORTH KOREA-SOUTH KOREA

THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE (DMZ)

Kim, Eleana Jean, Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ, Duke University Press, GF659 .K535 2022

 

KOREAN ARTS & CULTURE

An, Kyung & Kang Soojung (Editors), Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, Guggenheim, N7365 .O28 2023

Moon, Virginia (Editor), The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art, LACMA, N7365 .S63 2022

 

KOREAN HISTORIES & POLITICS

Kim, Monica, The interrogation rooms of the Korean War : the untold history, Princeton University Press, DS921 .K45 2019

 

The following is a supplemental acquisitions list for Kappe Library's “Design for L.A. environmental challenges” series, which focuses on design and planning strategies to mitigate major Southern California environmental disasters.

For a complete list of books, articles, and open access resources selected for the series, please see these KL Research Guides:

Design for L.A. environmental challenges:

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Buchanan, Andrew Hamilton & Anthony K. Abu, Structural design for fire safety, Wiley, TH1065 .B89 2017

Carle, David, Introduction to fire in California, University of California Press, SD421.32.C2 C38 2021

Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan & Gaurav Srivastava, Fire-resistant design of structures, CRC Press, TH1065 .C44 2023

Geschwind, Carl-Henry, California earthquakes : science, risk, and the politics of hazard mitigation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 (via Proquest Ebook Central) 

Mazloom, Moosa, Construction of earthquake-resistant concrete and steel structures : detailing techniques and application of codes, Elsevier Science & Technology, 2024 (via Proquest Ebook Central) 

Miller, Char (editor), Burn scars : a documentary history of fire suppression, from colonial origins to the resurgence of cultural burning, Oregon State University Press, 2024 (via Proquest Ebook Central) 

Pyne, Stephen J., The pyrocene : how we created an age of fire, and what happens next, University of California Press, 2021 (via Proquest Ebook Central) 

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