Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Race, writing, architecture: American patterns
  • Cottage desire: The bondwoman's narrative and the politics of antebellum space
  • Piazza tales: Architecture, race, and memory in Charles Chesnutt's conjure stories
  • Imperial bungalow: structures of empire in Richard Harding Davis and Olga Beatriz Torres
  • Keyless rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright and Charlie Chan
  • Coda: Black cabin, white house.