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1 Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book I Freud’s Papers on Technique: 1953–1954, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. with notes by John Forrester (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 147.

2 Michelle M. Wright, Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), 8–29.

3 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History, trans. J. Sibree (Kitchener: Batoche Books, 2001), 111.

4 Hegel, 116–17.

5 Jacques Lacan, Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, trans. Bruce Fink (New York: Norton, 1966), 344.

6 Jacques Lacan, My Teaching, trans. David Macey (London: Verso Books, 2008), 38.

7 Detlef Mertins, Mies (London: Phaidon Press, 2014).

8 Charles Kaiser, The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America (New York: Grove Press, 1997), 41.

9 Philip Johnson, “House at New Canaan, Connecticut,” Architectural Review 108, no. 645 (September 1950): 9.

10 Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), 38.

11 Morrison, 59.

12 Mark Wigley, White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), xv.

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Mario Gooden

Mario Gooden is a cultural practice architect whose work engages the intersectionality of architecture, race, gender, sexuality, and technology. His work crosses the thresholds between the design of architecture and the built environment, writing, research, and performance. Gooden is also a professor of practice at Columbia University and is codirector of the Global Africa Lab (GAL). He is a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and recipient of a 2019 National Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. Gooden is the author of Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity (Columbia University Press, 2016).