Digital Humanities Virtual Hour: Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

This IHR Digital Humanities Virtual Hour was held on December 1, 2020. J.T. Roane and Leonel Lombe presented "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place."

This presentation was introduced and moderated by Digital Humanities Initiative Program Lead and IHR Assistant Director Liz Grumbach.

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J.T. Roane is assistant professor of African and African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University and he is a 2008 graduate of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. Roane's scholarly essays have appeared in Souls Journal, The Review of Black Political Economy and Current Research in Digital History. His work has also appeared in venues such as The Brooklyn Rail, Pacific Standard, The Immanent Frame and Martyr's Shuffle. Roane is a 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Research Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. He is at work on a manuscript, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place in Philadelphia." Follow him on Twitter @JTRoane.

Leonel Lombe was born and raised in Angola, and is a member of the Ovambo nation. He earned his bachelor’s degree in geographic information studies and a certificate in African American studies from Arizona State University in May 2020 and is now a graduate student pursuing his master’s degree in American Students at Arizona State University. Fluent in Portuguese and English and being an artist, he aims to continue exploring the ways that the matters of shape and place shape Black musical production, circulation and consumption in the Afro-Portuguese Atlantic.