Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America awakens us to the many ways architecture, urbanism, and landscapes can promote collective justice for African Americans and African Diasporic communities throughout the US in the face of continual displacement and dispossession—from slavery through the period of Reconstruction to Jim Crow segregation, from the federally sanctioned “redlining” of neighborhoods beginning in the 1930s to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2009.