For the 2024 Spring Semester, AfricaGSD, in collaboration with UNSEEN, a project funded by the Wellbeing Project Fund and the MIT Black Student Group, hosted a mixer to connect and learn more about the places we call home. Our mission is to curate an open-access bibliography highlighting literature reflecting the countries, cities, or buildings we call home. It is an opportunity to discuss design from a non-academic perspective and broadly look at it from the lens of black creatives telling stories about the places they've been or the places they imagine our community to be.
We want this open library to serve as a space for the GSD community to learn about the places members of our community represent. Through the Spring 2024 semester, the library will be hosted on the lower level of the Frances Loeb Library. Feel free to add a country or city we missed. Let's celebrate and honor the diverse narratives that shape our understanding of home and design.
We invite the GSD community to submit recommendations and contribute to this project!
Open Library
Of Water and the Spirit by Call Number: DT555.45.D35 S667 1994ISBN: 0874777623Publication Date: 1994
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Call Number: HG4572 .L4 1994ISBN: 0471059684Publication Date: 1994 (first published 1923)
So Long a Letter by Call Number: PQ3989.2.B23 S513 2012ISBN: 9781577668060Publication Date: 2012 (first published in 1981)
Ambiguous Adventure by Call Number: PQ3989.2.K3 A2 2012ISBN: 9781612190549Publication Date: 2012 (first published 1961)
All Your Children, Scattered by Call Number: PQ3989.3.U48 T6813 2022ISBN: 9781609457853Publication Date: 2022
There Is an Anger That Moves by Call Number: PR9265.9.M553 T48 2007ISBN: 9781857549454Publication Date: 2007
The Beautyful Ones Are Not yet Born by Call Number: PR9379.9.A7 B4 1969xISBN: 9780435905408Publication Date: 1989 (first published 1968)
Things Fall Apart by Call Number: PR9387.9.A3 T534 1985xISBN: 9780385474542Publication Date: 1994 (first published 1958)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Call Number: PR9387.9.A34354 H3 2006bxISBN: 0007200277Publication Date: 2019 (first published 2006)
The Thing Around Your Neck by Call Number: PR9387.9.A34354 T45 2009xISBN: 9780007305988Publication Date: 2009
Head Above Water by Call Number: PR9387.9.E36 Z464x 1986ISBN: 9780435909932Publication Date: 1994 (first published 1986)
Second-Class Citizen by Call Number: PR9387.9.E387 S4 x, 1975ISBN: 9780241532683Publication Date: 1977 (first published 1975)
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Call Number: PS3563.A7223 B7 1981ISBN: 1558614982Publication Date: 2006 (first published 1959)
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Call Number: PS3613.E488 B46 2010ISBN: 9780393071764Publication Date: 2010
Children of Blood and Bone by Call Number: PZ7.1.A24 Ch 2018ISBN: 9781250170972Publication Date: 2018
Chike and the River by Call Number: PZ7.A174 Ch 2011ISBN: 9780307473868Publication Date: 2011 (first published 1966)
What They Meant for Evil by ISBN: 9781546017226Publication Date: 2019
