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Dark agoras : insurgent Black social life and the politics of place
- Title
- Dark agoras : insurgent Black social life and the politics of place / J. T. Roane.
- Author
- Roane, J. T.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, [2022]
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- 299 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Since 1900
- Urban African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 20th century
- Working class African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 20th century
- African American sexual minorities > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 20th century
- Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970
- City and town life > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
- Urbanization > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
- City and town life
- Social conditions
- Urbanization
- African American LGBTQ+ people
- Black LGBTQ+ people
- Working class African Americans
- African American sexual minorities
- Urban African Americans
- Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions
- Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-390
- ISBN
- 9781479847679
- 1479847674
- 9781479876129 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781479845385 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022015622
- OCLC
- 1346543929
- Author
- Roane, J. T., author.
- Title
- Dark agoras : insurgent Black social life and the politics of place / J. T. Roane.
- Publisher
- New York : New York University Press, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1900
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-390