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EVENT: Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

Wednesday 18 January in #Brighton (UK)

Book launch & talk by J.T. Roane

"In this book, he shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia... Together these sites incubated Black queer urbanism, or dissident visions for urban life"

Free tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-agoras-insurgent-black-social-life-and-the-politics-of-place-tickets-505999196217

#commons #urbanhistory #blackhistory

Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

Talk by J.T. Roane on his book about Black urban placemaking & politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power.

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Jan 9, 2023 at 1:15pmWeb
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The video of this is now online!
https://futurenatures.org/video-jt-roane-on-dark-agoras-in-philadelphia/
Video: JT Roane on 'Dark Agoras' in Philadelphia - Future Natures

Full video of JT Roane's talk about Black urban placemaking in twentieth-century Philadelphia.

Future Natures