Porch-sitting

CTL-E-1321 · Practice · other · 1950–2016

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Evening porch gathering — conversation, hair-braiding, signifying, watching the street — the Chicago Black neighborhood's open-air living room and the local form of 'stoop culture.'

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-058; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

Lonnae O'Neal, 'Losing the sacred space of the front porch,' Andscape/The Undefeated (2016) (primary source)
University of Miami News, 'The Southern Porch as a Sacred Stoop' (June 2018)
Andscape (2016); UM News (2018); Chicago Magazine (Sept 2016)

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