Dark agoras : insurgent Black social life and the politics of place / J.T. Roane.
A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power. In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly--dark agoras--in twentieth century Philadelphia. H...
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New York University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Plotting the historical origins of dark agoras
- Crossing the thresholds between worlds: Toward a Black migrant phenomenology of the city
- Darkness as Blackness and death: The rise of dominant urbanism and Black delinquency
- The Peace Mission movement and Black Queer urbanism in Philadelphia
- Insurgent Black social-spatial life and the geography of the 1964 "riot"
- On the MOVE: Dark agoras and a Black phenomenology of the city after the riot.