Black Towns, Black Futures
The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
By Karla Slocum
192 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 13 halftones, 1 map, 1 table
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5397-6
Published: November 2019 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5396-9
Published: November 2019 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5398-3
Published: September 2019
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Awards & distinctions
Finalist, 2020 Oklahoma Book Awards (Non-Fiction)
About the Author
Karla Slocum is Thomas Willis Lambeth Chair of Public Policy and professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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“Slocum gives us a sense of the importance of Black towns, which then becomes an allegory for the importance of one’s own history, which then becomes a commentary on what makes all of us human. Black Towns, Black Futures is innovative and methodologically rigorous, while also accessible and highly original. An outstanding book.” —Laurence Ralph, Princeton University
“Slocum has written a careful, convincing, and insightful argument about how and why it makes sense to think seriously about the state of—and lure of—Black towns in contemporary American society. A wonderful example of what ethnography can do when placed in proper historical context and steeped in the cultural politics of local communities.” —John L. Jackson Jr., University of Pennsylvania