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

Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place Journal of the American Planning Association 1 2023 | Volume 0 Number 0 Reviews meeting places of relative freedom and autonomy that Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social allowed limited agency for an oppressed people. Life and the Politics of Place He then connects those dark agoras in rural areas with those created in cities as part of the Great J. T. Roane Migration. Trapped by exclusion in often hostile urban environments, migrants re-created a sense of agency, (2023). New York University Press, 312 pages. $39 (hardcover) Reviewed by June Manning Thomas, University of Michigan but the results sometimes looked abnormal to outsiders (us). He describes two kinds of agency: “the under- t’s difficult to write something ground,” the site of sometimes illegal and self- conceptually new about destructive activity that nevertheless granted freedom African Americans, mid-20th- of action and was the logical response to a rigid system century U.S. cities, and urban of deprivation imposed by the larger White society, and the “set-apart,” another kind of dark agora centered in a planning. We think we know the flourishing set of nontraditional religious groups differ- sense of it all: migration from the ent from more mainstream Black churches. His descrip- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Planning Association Taylor & Francis

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© 2023 American Planning Association, Chicago, IL.
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1939-0130
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10.1080/01944363.2023.2200120
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Journal of the American Planning Association 1 2023 | Volume 0 Number 0 Reviews meeting places of relative freedom and autonomy that Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social allowed limited agency for an oppressed people. Life and the Politics of Place He then connects those dark agoras in rural areas with those created in cities as part of the Great J. T. Roane Migration. Trapped by exclusion in often hostile urban environments, migrants re-created a sense of agency, (2023). New York University Press, 312 pages. $39 (hardcover) Reviewed by June Manning Thomas, University of Michigan but the results sometimes looked abnormal to outsiders (us). He describes two kinds of agency: “the under- t’s difficult to write something ground,” the site of sometimes illegal and self- conceptually new about destructive activity that nevertheless granted freedom African Americans, mid-20th- of action and was the logical response to a rigid system century U.S. cities, and urban of deprivation imposed by the larger White society, and the “set-apart,” another kind of dark agora centered in a planning. We think we know the flourishing set of nontraditional religious groups differ- sense of it all: migration from the ent from more mainstream Black churches. His descrip-

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Published: Jul 3, 2023

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