White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Modernist Architecture, and Contemporary Preservation: Remaking the Past, Preserving Power

This book examines the afterlives of the built environment produced through early 20th-century settler colonialism. The author analyzes contemporary architectural preservationists’ narrative strategies to remake what were designed as racialized “European” zones – in opposition to “Indigenous” zones – as white cities through the documentation, preservation, and addition to the UNESCO World Heritage List. This book interrogates the fashioning of white cities through ethnographic methods with ...