Mark Lamster partner's in a project with News visual journalist Lynda M. González in publication' Reckoning with Joppa'
A recent publication by Mark Lamster, Associate Professor of Practice and Texas Architecture Critic. Special audio report, 'Reckoning with Joppa'
Joppa is a small Dallas neighborhood of barely 300 homes, a freedman's town founded in 1872 southeast of Dallas, has been hemmed in by industrial development to the west and the Trinity River floodplain to the east. Joppa is considered a special place by the people who live in this community.
"Reckoning with Joppa" invites the question of how a community with historical significance could be neglected and subjugated by the outside world. "Joppa's story is the history of race in Dallas — and America. Lamster's partner in the project was News visual journalist Lynda M. González. In "Reckoning with Joppa," Lamster and González explore the people, problems, and promise of this unique community." Dallas Morning News.
Lamster exposes systemic racism residents of Joppa have encountered over the years and how institutionalized racism had plagued Dallas and America.
Dean Parr applauds Lamster and his collaborator for bringing us such an intelligent, meticulously researched, and brilliantly inciteful piece of architectural criticism into the public realm.