H. Raphael-Hernandez on A. D. Nieves and L. M. Alexander’s “We Shall Independent Be”: African American Place Making…

Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander. Eds. “We Shall Independent Be”: African American Place Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the United States. Boulder: UP of Colorado, 2008. xvi + pp. 538.In their collection of essays, Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander offer a space to twenty contributors who explore the history of the African American search and struggle to claim particular public places in the United States that were necessary for African American survival and tran...