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"We shall independent be" : African American place making and the struggle to claim space in the United States

Author: Angel David Nieves; Leslie M Alexander
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Angel David Nieves; Leslie M Alexander
ISBN: 9780870819063 0870819062
OCLC Number: 180755631
Description: xvi, 538 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Community and institution building in antebellum New York: the story of Seneca village, 1825-1857 / Leslie M. Alexander -- Contesting space in Antebellum New York: black community, city neighborhoods, and the draft riots of 1863 / Carla L. Peterson -- Self-determination: race, space, and Chicago's Woodlawn organization in the 1960s / Mark Santow -- A recess from Jim Crow: Luther P. Jackson, the teachers, and the movement for racial justice / Michael Dennis -- Claiming the courtroom: space, race, and law, 1808-1856 / Scott Hancock -- "Liberated grounds": the institute of the black world and black intellectual space / Derrick E. White -- Subverting heritage and memory: investigating Luray's "ol' slave auction block" / Ann Denkler -- "Going colored": the struggle over race and residence in the urban south / Kevin M. Kruse -- The other suburbanites: African American suburbanization in the north before 1950 / Andrew Wiese -- Hidden away in the woods and swamps: slavery, fugitive slaves, and swamplands in the southeastern borderlands, 1739-1845 / Megan Kate Nelson -- Rosenwald schools in the southern landscape / Mary S. Hoffschwelle -- "We are too busy making history to write history": African American women, constructions of nation, and the built environment in the new south, 1892-1968 / Angel David Nieves -- Gym Crow must go: the 1960s struggle between Columbia University and its New York City neighbors / Stefan Bradley -- Mapping out spaces of race pride: the social geography of leisure on the south side of Chicago, 1900-1919 / Robin F. Bachin -- Rights of passage: the integration of Philadelphia's streetcars and contested definitions of public space, 1857-1867 / Michael Kahan -- The "sweetest street in the world": recreational life on Chattanooga's Ninth Street / Michelle R. Scott -- Putting the movement in its place: the politics of public spaces dedicated to the civil rights movement / Owen J. Dwyer -- Sacred spaces of faith, community, and resistance: rural African American churches in Jim Crow Tennessee / Carroll Van West -- "In our image, after our likeness": the meaning of a black deity in the African American protest tradition, 1880-1970 / Patrick Q. Mason -- Reclaiming space: the African burial ground in New York City / Andrea E. Frohne.
Responsibility: edited by Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander.
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