By Charles Davis (Asst. Prof. of Architecture History) | This book review examines three new titles in architectural history: William A. Gleason’s Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race and American Literature; Dianne Harris’ Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America; and Mabel O. Wilson’s Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums. This book review originally appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (volume 73, no.3). Introduction: Race, Writing, Architecture: American Patterns Cottage Desire: The Bondwoman’s Narrative and the Politics of Antebellum Space Piazza Tales: Architecture, Race, and Memory in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Stories Imperial Bungalow: Structures of Empire in Richard Harding Davis and Olga Beatriz Torres Keyless Rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright and Charlie Chan Coda: Black Cabin, White House Preface Introduction 1. The Ordinary Postwar House 2. Magazine Lessons: Publishing the Lexicon of White Domesticity 3. Rendered Whiteness: Architectural Drawings and Graphics 4. Private Worlds: The Spatial Contours of Exclusion and Privilege 5. Household Goods: Purchasing and Consuming Identity 6. Built-Ins and Closets: Status, Storage, and Display …