Colored Carnegie Library, Houston, Texas (1913), William Sydney Pittman architect

In this episode, Allison Frederick examines the ways that the Houston Colored Carnegie Library subversively promoted settler colonial ideas about white supremacy and Black inferiority. In her analysis, she demonstrates the ways that philanthropy, whiteness, and imperialism worked together to keep the settler narrative alive, even as Black communities became stronger and self-sufficient. Settler Colonialism doesn’t end when the land is taken, but lives within the institutions that help people live in it.