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The Divine City: On J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras”
Charles McKinney reviews J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.”
Charles W. McKinney
Charles W. McKinney Jr. is the Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies and associate professor of history at Rhodes College. His latest book, co-edited with Aram Goudsouzian, is An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee (2018). His forthcoming book, co-edited with Françoise Hamlin, From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle, will be published next year.