Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Nieves, Angel David
2. Alexander, Leslie M

Description

1. xvi, 538 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

1. African Americans -- Social conditions
2. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History
3. Place (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- History. -- United States
4. African American neighborhoods -- History
5. Community life -- United States -- History
6. City planning -- United States -- History
7. Human geography -- United States -- History
8. Social ecology -- United States -- History
9. United States -- Race relations
10. United States -- History, Local

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 08-5932

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. "We shall independent be" : African American place making and the struggle to claim space in the United States / edited by Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander.

Imprint

1. Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2008.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Nieves, Angel David.
2. Alexander, Leslie M.

LCCN

1. 2008001304

ISBN

1. 9780870819063 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 0870819062 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 08-5932