Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This text argues that architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a linguistic practice, operate within the same semiotic paradigm. The book presents a systematic analysis of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Illustration Credits (p. xv)
• Foreword (p. xvii)
• Preface (p. xxi)
• Acknowledgments (p. xxv)
• Introduction (p. xxvii)
• Forethought Black Reflections on Architecture (p. 1)
• An Answer to the Question: "So What Does Blackness Have to Do with Architecture?" (p. 1)
• On Solitude (p. 5)
• A Black Manifesto (p. 17)
• Chapter 1 Hegel's Tropes: History, Architecture, and the Black Subject (p. 53)
• Philosophy and Aesthetics: A Total Model of History (p. 53)
• The Subject Identified (p. 61)
• Full Force of the Effect: The Negation of the Black Subject (p. 65)
• The Symbolic Category: Architecture's Blackness (p. 71)
• Transcending the Black Subject (p. 80)
• Chapter 2 Scheming the Scheme: The Technique of Revision (p. 85)
• A Racial Model of the Dialectic (p. 85)
• The Consistency of Ideas (p. 89)
• A Comprehensive Diagram (p. 96)
• A Linguistic Revision of Aesthetics (p. 103)
• Reintroduction of the Black Subject (p. 112)
• Chapter 3 Tropological Cases: The Racial Object in Architectural Discourse (p. 125)
• Signification of the First Order: Laws of Emergence (p. 125)
• Case 1 An Original Essay on Style (p. 128)
• Case 2 A Reflective Essay on Style (p. 134)
• Case 3 A Philosophical Essay on Style (p. 140)
• Signification of the Second Order: Operations on a Black Signifier (p. 144)
• Contemporary Architectural Theory: Talking Black (p. 152)
• Afterthought (p. 163)
• A Monkey Reading ... Fanon (p. 163)
• Notes (p. 169)
• Bibliography (p. 181)
• Index (p. 185)