The term 'hat tip', a sign of respect and acknowledgement, originated back when people wore hats. On Twitter dot com, my favorite social media platform, the term is often abbreviated as 'H/T'.
Thanks to the persistence of Ms. Janet Elbom, newspaper adviser for LBJ and LASA High Schools, I learned long ago that it is important to cite one's sources. But it is particularly important, downright necessary, to give credit where it is due in a society which systemically attributes to White men the work and ideas of women, Black people and other people of color. Working in the spaces I do, I can easily be one of those White men. I hope to prevent that, through this list and other means of recognition.
I cannot do what I do without the work of others whose work creates, defines and enriches the physical, political and theoretical space in which I do it. I hope you can be inspired by them, too.
Scott Ruff
John Klingman
Free Egunfemi’s Untold RVA
Designing Justice+Designing Spaces
Bryan Lee Jr. and Sue Mobley’s Colloqate Design
Barbara Ransby’s Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Taylor Branch’s America in the King Years
Detroit Collaborative Design Center
Maricruz Aguayo Tabor
Andrea Gratten
Jon Hale and William Sturkey’s To Write in the Light of Freedom
Darrell Wayne Fields’ Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance
Curry Stone Foundation’s Social Design Insights
Ceasar McDowell and Ayushi Roy’s The Move MIT
Malik Bartholomew’s Know NOLA Tours
New Orleans’ Community Book Center
Austin’s Book People
The Austin Public Library
The New Orleans Public Library
Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent and Reform
Pascale Sablan’s Beyond the Built Environment
Beau Frail’s Activate Architecture
Rhonda Y. Williams’ The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality
Ellen Green Loeb
Ralph Loeb, Jr.
The National Lynching Memorial
Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning
Harvard GSD AASU’s Black in Design
Curator Gia Hamilton
Activist Zyahna Bryant
Carla Williams’ Material Life
Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton’s When Ivory Towers Were Black
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones
The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
East Austin Coalition for Quality Education
Carla Jackson Bell’s Space Unveiled: Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio
Architectural and planning historian Brian D. Goldstein
Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA
Designing the We’s Undesign the Redline
Planner and organizer Dasjon S. Jordan
Keri Edwards, Michelle Barrett and NOMAS-TU
Designer Bryan Bradshaw
Blake Allen
New Orleans Councilmember Dorothy Mae Taylor
The #BlackPride4 of Columbus, Ohio
Designer, organizer and photographer John Miller Ludlam
Artist and organizer Shoshana Gordon
Racial justice educator Debby Irving