Dark agoras : insurgent Black social life and the politics of place / J. T. Roane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roane, J. T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions--20th century.

Urban African Americans.

Working class African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions--20th century.

Working class African Americans.

African American sexual minorities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions--20th century.

African American sexual minorities.

Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970.

City and town life--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

City and town life.

Urbanization--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Urbanization.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Social conditions.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

LGBTQ+ people.

African American LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Dark Agoras shows how Black working-class communities created distinctive practices of place and politics from the Great Migrant generations into the era of Black Power, constituting an underexamined tradition of worldmaking and urbanism"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479847679

1479847674

OCLC:

1346543929

Publisher Number:

40031606528