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Subject(s)

• Urban African Americans—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—Social conditions—20th century [Browse]
• Working class African Americans—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—Social conditions—20th century [Browse]
• African American sexual minorities—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—Social conditions—20th century [Browse]
• Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970 [Browse]
• City and town life—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia [Browse]
• Urbanization—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia [Browse]
• Philadelphia (Pa.)—Social conditions [Browse]

Homosaurus term(s)

• LGBTQ+ people [Browse]

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

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.

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ISBN

• 9781479847679
• 1479847674

LCCN

2022015622

OCLC

• 1346543929
• 1400972580

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