Book Review: <i>Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis</i> by Kimberley Johnson JohnsonKimberley, Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025), 370 pp.

Akira Drake Rodriguez

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  title        = {{Book Review: <i>Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis</i> by Kimberley Johnson JohnsonKimberley, Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025), 370 pp.}},
  author       = {Akira Drake Rodriguez},
  journal      = {Urban Affairs Review},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874261438119},
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