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SUMMARY:Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis
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DESCRIPTION:Dark Concrete is about how the Black Power movement reshaped u
 rban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. Altho
 ugh the national and international dimensions of the Black Power movement 
 are often focused on\, Kimberley Johnson looks at the movement at the loca
 l level\, highlighting Newark and East Orange\, New Jersey\, and Oakland a
 nd East Palo Alto\, California\, and three policy areas: housing\, educati
 on\, and policing. She examines how Black Power Urbanism had its own local
  meanings as it was defined by local activists\, neighborhood residents\, 
 parents\, tenants\, and others who sought to repair cities and particularl
 y black neighborhoods that were shattered due to urban renewal and highway
  construction\, as well as ongoing political and economic disinvestment. D
 ark Concrete depicts how local conditions influenced the emergence of the 
 Black Power movement and\, in turn\, the ways in which these local movemen
 ts reshaped urban politics\, institutions\, and place.\n\nKimberley S. Joh
 nson is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University\,
  with affiliate appointments in the Department of Politics and the Wagner 
 Graduate School of Public Service. Johnson recently held the John G. Winan
 t Visiting Professorship in American Government at the University of Oxfor
 d (2024-25). Johnson’s work examines American political development\, th
 e formation of the modern administrative state and bureaucratic governance
 \; urban and suburban governance\; race and ethnic politics\; and the poli
 tical production of (sub-)urban space. Johnson’s most recent book\, Dark
  Concrete: The Black Power Metropolis and Urban Political Development (Cor
 nell University Press\, 2025)\, traces the emergence of Black Power urbani
 sm through comparative case studies of Newark and East Orange\, New Jersey
 \, and Oakland and East Palo Alto\, California. She is also the author of 
 Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age before Brown (O
 xford University Press\, 2010) and Governing the American State: Congress 
 and the New Federalism\, 1877–1929 (Princeton University Press\, 2007). 
 Her articles and essays have appeared in venues including Urban History\, 
 Studies in American Political Development\, Urban Affairs Review\, Du Bois
  Review\, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage\, among others. Johnson’s 
 research has been supported by a variety of entities including the Ford Fo
 undation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Founda
 tion. Johnson is currently the co-editor of the journal Studies in America
 n Political Development.
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LOCATION:Rothermere American Institute\, Rothermere American Institute 1A 
 South Parks Road  Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3UB United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Kimberley Johnson (New York University)
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