African Americans are about 1.6% of all US Licensed Architects. That number hasn't much improved in 16 years. In 1992, AAs were about 1.2% of all US Architects. Non female and non-AA architects over at the Architecture Record Magazine website forum seem to think meritocracy is gender, culture, race neutral.
Check out the thread from Architectural Record Magazine , then look at the statistics for African American Architects in the USA. There are about 101k licensed architects in the USA, according to ncarb.org, the organization that regulates architectural licensure in the USA. About 0.0023% of all architects in the USA are African American women. If that isn't invisible, I don't know what is.
The idea of relinquishing the design & planning of the built environment to people who know substantially less about your gender, culture and life, challenges, is a recipe for chaos (if not extinction), in my opinion. Community, house/home is central to each culture, family, tribe. We already know that poor planning and bad design can create social climates that are not conducive to community, healthy families.

Many of the posts on the AR site say AA women aren't achieving in architecture because (by implication) they must not merit advancement, must not be talented. Really?

Please look at the article on the Architectural Record site and comment here.
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