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Mabel O. Wilson is a faculty member at Columbia GSAPP. The page does not provide specific details about her research focus, background, or key contributions. Therefore, no further biographical information is available from the provided content.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• History

Selected publications

• Phillis Wheatley: A ‘Bright Abode’ and Poetic Spaces of Liberation

  2025-11-01

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• Negro Building

  2023-09-01

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• White by Design

  2023-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Entropic Monuments

  TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies · 2023-04-01

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  To join Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return is to take a journey divergent from the West’s well-worn genre of the epic that fetes great white men whose great risks meet with even greater rewards. By contrast, Brand sutures her transatlantic bricolage of time and space with disruptions and displacements. Her redactions and erasures illuminate the efficacy of forgetting in a world where the colonizers have frozen the historical time of Empire in marble, granite, and bronze.

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• Provisional Demos

  Routledge eBooks · 2023 · 10 citations

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  • Computer Science
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  Tent cities like the Occupy movement are part of a long history of protest encampments as sites of political protest. In May of 1968, civil rights activists erected a monumental Tent City on the National Mall in Washington DC as part of the Poor Peoples campaign catalyzed by the Civil Rights Movement. The essay explores how this provisional demos, a temporary commons forms within tent cities, assigned agency and leveraged collective action for economic and political change. It also considers if it is precisely the tent’s impermanence, it’s negligible footprint, that in part contributes to the refusal on the part of the state and cities to commit to long-term settlement of the denizens of these tent cities, precisely because of the correlation of race, citizenship, personhood, and land? This essay examines what tent cities in the past can tell us about how these temporary formations might function as sites of political action and change.

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• Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present

  2020-01-01 · 6 citations

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• Introduction

  University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks · 2020 · 3 citations

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  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
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• Collecting Publics: The Spatial Politics of Dorchester Projects

  2020-09-27

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• Notes on the Virginia Capitol

  University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks · 2020 · 13 citations

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  • History
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• Review: <i>Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South</i>, by William E. O'Brien and <i>What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South</i>, by Dell Upton

  Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians · 2019-02-20

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  Book Review| March 01 2019 Review: Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South, by William E. O'Brien and What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South, by Dell Upton William E. O'BrienLandscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American SouthAmherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016, 208 pp., 50 b/w illus. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781625341556Dell UptonWhat Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary SouthNew Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015, 280 pp., 59 b/w illus. $35 (cloth), ISBN 9780300211757 Mabel O. Wilson Mabel O. Wilson Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2019) 78 (1): 112–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2019.78.1.112 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mabel O. Wilson; Review: Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South, by William E. O'Brien and What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South, by Dell Upton. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2019; 78 (1): 112–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2019.78.1.112 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In late July 2018, someone shot at a historic marker commemorating the place along Mississippi's Tallahatchie River where Emmett Till's mutilated, bullet-riddled corpse was found. Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy, was abducted and viciously murdered by two white vigilantes in the summer of 1955. Vandals stole the site's first sign and then shot up a second one. A third marker had been erected and dedicated only five weeks before the 2018 incident by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, located in the nearby Sumner, Mississippi, courthouse where Till's murderers were put on trial. A similar spate of vandalism befell a marker sponsored by the Mississippi Freedom Trail, a historical initiative dedicated to marking important sites of civil rights struggles in the state. That marker is located at the former site of Bryant's Grocery in Money, Mississippi, where Carolyn Jones, a white woman, falsely claimed that Till made sexually explicit gestures... You do not currently have access to this content.

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Frequent coauthors

• Irene Cheng

  University of Alberta

  3 shared

• Charles L. Davis

  3 shared

• Benjamin Kunkel

  2 shared

• Sarah Nuttall

  London School of Economics and Political Science

  1 shared

• Andrew Weiner

  1 shared

• Eva Kaßens-Noor

  Michigan State University

  1 shared

• Lee Pugalis

  University of Technology Sydney

  1 shared

• Silvia Kolbowski

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation