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July 1, 2010
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: University Press of Colorado, 2008. 544 pp.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780870819063)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.74

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In his seminal collection of essays The Souls of Black Folks (1903), W. E. B. Du Bois, preeminent educator, scholar, and founder of the NAACP, traced a genealogy of black life in the United States as a way to demystify for his readers “the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century.” Assembling a collage of narratives that wove poignant personal recollections with a collective history of slavery, racial oppression,...