The 2023 SAH | Places award recipient, Ginger Nolan, has had her article published in the Places journal.
In “Black Capitalism and the City,” architectural historian Ginger Nolan unravels the double bind of African American-owned insurance companies in the 20th century: How to strengthen Black communities while remaining beholden to calculations
of financial risk that often deepened social divides? As Nolan writes: "Executives at these firms maintained a delicate balancing act within evolving contexts of racial capitalism. Such paradoxical efforts speak to longstanding debates about whether
it is possible to extirpate the racial component of racial capitalism, while leaving the system otherwise intact." This is the inaugural essay of the SAH | Places Prize.
You can read the article on the Places journal website
here.
In collaboration with the Society of Architectural Historians, the SAH | Places Prize supports the production of a major work of public scholarship that considers the history of race and the built environment through a contemporary lens. The prize is the brainchild of Charles L. Davis II, co-chair of the SAH Race + Architectural History Affiliate Group.
