The University of Manchester Americans Studies programme is delighted to announce its annual Henry Box Brown Lecture, which this year will be given by Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago). Adrienne Brown is an Associate Professor in English and Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago and specializes in American and African American cultural production in the twentieth century. She is the author of The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race(Johns Hopkins, 2017), and The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership (Stanford , 2024). Her lecture will draw on the latter publication, and is entitled, ‘The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership’. The event takes place on Wednesday, May 7th at 4pm in the Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester.