ABSTRACT
FOOTNOTES 1 This article is an amended and extended version of a text that first appeared in Underground, published by students and
staff at the Kingston University School of Architecture in 1997. The author wishes to thank the editor, Shahed Saleem, for his agreement to develop the format further and wishes to make clear that Shahed Saleem should not be associated with any
views expressed in this text. The text has been written by the author based on her own lived experience. Statistical information regarding the parentage of black members of the RIBA comes from the Society of Black Architects.
