Before there were guidebooks there were just guides--people in the community you could count on to show you around.
I'll Take You There is written by and with the people who most intimately know Nashville, foregrounding the struggles and achievements of people's movements towards social justice. The colloquial use of 'I'll take you there' has long been a response to the call of a stranger: for recommendations of safe passage through unfamiliar territory, a decent meal and place to lay one's head, or perhaps a watering hole or juke joint.
In the pages that follow, more than 100 Nashvillians 'take us there,' guiding us to places we might not otherwise encounter. Their collective entries bear witness to the ways that power has been used by social, political, and economic elites to tell or omit certain stories, while celebrating the power of counter-narratives as a tool to resist injustice. Indeed, each entry is simultaneously a story about place, power, and the historic and ongoing struggle toward a more just city for all. We hope the result is akin to the experience of arriving in an unfamiliar place asking directions, and rather than simply getting pointed in the right direction, receiving a warm offer from a local to lead us on, accompanied by a tale or two.
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"A guide to the Nashville you may not have been taught about in schools, I'll Take You There provides a thorough indexing of the city through the lenses of history, social justice and the struggles for racial and economic equality." - Steve Haruch, editor of Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became "It" City and People only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley
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Broschur/Paperback
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Höhe: 226 mm
Breite: 151 mm
Dicke: 14 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-8265-0153-0 (9780826501530)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Amie Thurber is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Community Research and Action in 2018.
Learotha Williams, Jr. is a scholar of African American, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Public History at Tennessee State University. Williams has worked as a Historic Sites Specialist for the State of Florida, acted as coordinator for the African American Studies Program at Armstrong Atlantic State University, and served as trustee of the Historic Savannah Foundation in Savannah, Georgia. He also spearheads the North Nashville Heritage Project, an effort that seeks to encourage a greater understanding of the history of North Nashville, including but not limited to Jefferson Street and its historic relationship to the greater Nashville community.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Downtown
1. Nunna-daul-Tsuny (Trail Where They Cried)
2. The Public Square
3. Maxwell House Hotel
4. Juanita's
5. Ryman Auditorium
6. Tara Cole Memorial Bench
7. Black Bottom (Country Music Hall of Fame)
8. Downtown Incinerator/Ascend Amphitheatre
9. Tent City/2010 Flood
10. James Robertson Apartments
11. Nashville Public Library Civil Rights Room
12. Walgreens Lunch Counter
13. Tennessee State Capitol
14. The Hermitage Hotel
15. Legislative Plaza
16. Music City Central Bus Station Bathroom
17. The Nashville Globe
18. Duncan Hotel
19. The Nashville Farmer's Market
20. First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill
Chapter 3: Northwest
21. Gateway to Heritage/440
22. American Baptist College
23. Clark Memorial Methodist Church
24. Fisk University
25. Jubilee Hall
26. Tennessee State University
27. Hadley Park
28. Meharry Medical College
29. Nashville Greenlands
30. Pearl High School
31. Planned Parenthood
32. The Original Tennessee State Penitentiary
33. William Edmondson Park
34. John Henry Hale Apartments
35. Z. Alexander Looby's home
36. Bordeaux Landfill
37. Southern Publishing Association
38. Beaman Park/Bells Bend
Chapter 4: Northeast
39. John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge
40. Greenwood Cemetery
41. Edgefield House
42. Sunday Night Soul at the 5 Spot
43. QDP
44. Hattie Cotton Elementary
45. First Baptist Church of East Nashville
46. Winfrey's Barber Shop
47. Stratford High School
48. Cornelia Fort Park
49. U.S. Colored Troops National Monument
50. Mansker Station
51. Gass's Store/Cinco de Mayo Mexican Restaurant
Chapter 5: Southeast
52. Nashville International Airport
53. The Camps of St. Cloud Hill
54. Wilson Park
55. Nashville Fairgrounds
56. Casa AzafrAn
57. Clairmont Apartments
58. The Buddhist Temple
59. La Hacienda Taqueria y Super Mercado
60. Workers' Dignity
61. Global Mall at the Crossings
62. Hands-On-Nashville Urban Farm
63. Salahadeen Center
64. Nashville Zoo at Grassmere
Chapter 6: Southwest
65. Capers Memorial CME Church
66. Local 257 American Federation of Musicians
67. Nashville Songwriters Association International
68. Music Row/Quonset Hut
69. Edgehill United Methodist Church
70. Edgehill Village
71. Scarritt Bennett Center
72. Roger Williams University
73. Vanderbilt Divinity School
74. Confederate Memorial Hall
75. Memorial Gymnasium
76. Vanderbilt Kirkland Hall/Occupy Vanderbilt
77. Centennial Park
78. The Parthenon
79. Fannie Mae Dees Park
80. International Market & Restaurant
81. Carver Food Park
82. CCA/CoreCivic
83. Glendale Baptist Church
84. Radnor Lake
85. Gordon Jewish Community Center
86. Aaittafama' Archeological Park
Chapter 7: On the Road
87. Promise Land
88. Wessyngton Plantation
89. Coal Creek Miners Museum
90. Highlander Research and Education Center
91. Islamic Center of Murfreesboro
92. The Town of Old Jefferson
93. The Farm
94. Giles County Trail of Tears Interpretive Center
95. Walnut Street Bridge, Chattanooga
96. Mound Bottom
97. Fayette County Courthouse
Chapter 8: Thematic Tours
It City
Athens of the South
Music City
Southern Hospitality
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