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Incorporating interviews, reflections on participation in local events, personal narratives, and archival research across multiple towns, the work demonstrates that Black towns remain a source of pride in success, innovation, and community. . . . Recommended.--CHOICE Reviews

A compelling and fascinating exploration of how space, place, and race converge in rural America.--The Journal of Southern History An impressive effort to theorize what Slocum calls the 'appeal' of Black towns in the United States, not historically, but in contemporary social life. . . . Black Towns, Black Futures is necessary now, for the glimpse it provides into the vision and attraction of Black spaces and Black places, at a time when safety and survival seem increasingly precarious.--Anthropological Quarterly Incorporating interviews, reflections on participation in local events, personal narratives, and archival research across multiple towns, the work demonstrates that Black towns remain a source of pride in success, innovation, and community. . . . Recommended.--CHOICE Reviews

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Karla Slocum is Thomas Willis Lambeth Chair of Public Policy and associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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