Bibliography

Dr. Arijit Sen

Wealth of knowledge and long time collaborator, Arijit Sen has been so useful in our process and investigation. Arijit Sen is an architect and vernacular architecture historian who writes, teaches and studies urban cultural landscapes. He has worked on post disaster reconstruction and community-based design in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans and directed public history and cultural landscapes field schools in Milwaukee. Sen’s academic and research background is in architectural history, social, cultural and behavioral analysis of the built environment, and American cultural landscape studies.

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Evicted

While a popular nonfiction book, this source was valuable and has served as the starting point for every researcher. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by the American author Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. It highlights the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States.

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Yearning Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

This book by Bell Hooks became the next step for researchers on this project in order to understand the intersectionality of the work. It crosses disciplinary boundaries in major debates on postmodern theory, cultural criticism, and the politics of race and gender. Hooks values postmodernism's insights while warning that the fashionable infatuation with "discourse" about "difference" is dangerously detachable from the struggle we must all wage against racism, sexism, and cultural imperialism.

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