Porches, their origin in the United States as a space constructed by and for the Black body, has become a key architectural space fundamental to Black culture as a space for exchange, storytelling and comfort. The porch, as a typology, often linked to the shotgun house, through its image making, produces a symbol for Black Identity in the United States. It therefore subverts the settler colonialist strategies and regimes of exclusion and the history of producing spaces around whiteness. By looking at the construction of these liminal spaces produced at the boundary between the private dwelling and the public sphere, we might better understand how the manifestation of Black culture is inherently tied to physical architectural spaces.

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