Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center

A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power. Join us for a discussion of J. T. Roane's new book, Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces