"We shall independent be" : African American place making and the struggle to claim space in the United States /
Nieves, Angel David.
Alexander, Leslie M.
Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado,
c2008.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
African Americans
African Americans
Place (Philosophy)
African American neighborhoods
Community life
City planning
Human geography
Social ecology