I'll Take You There Exploring Nashville's Social Justice Sites / Amie Thurber, Learotha Williams Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Learotha, Jr., editor.

Thurber, Amie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Social justice--Tennessee--Nashville.

Tennessee--Nashville.

Nashville (Tenn.)--Guidebooks.

Nashville (Tenn.).

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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 toward 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 this book, more than one hundred 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 counternarratives 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. The result is akin to the experience of asking for directions in an unfamiliar place and receiving a warm offer from a local to lead you on, accompanied by a tale or two.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Downtown

An Introduction to Downtown

1.1 Nunna-daul-Tsuny (Trail Where They Cried)

1.2 Public Square

1.3 Maxwell House Hotel

1.4 Juanita's

1.5 Ryman Auditorium

1.6 Tara Cole Memorial Bench

1.7 Black Bottom (Country Music Hall of Fame)

1.8 Downtown Incinerator / Ascend Amphitheatre

1.9 Tent City / 2010 Flood

1.10 James Robertson Apartments

1.11 Nashville Public Library Civil Rights Room

1.12 Walgreens Lunch Counter

1.13 Tennessee State Capitol

1.14 The Hermitage Hotel

1.15 Legislative Plaza

1.16 Music City Central Bus Station Bathroom

1.17 The Nashville Globe

1.18 Duncan Hotel

1.19 The Nashville Farmers' Market

1.20 First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill

2. Northwest

An Introduction to Northwest Nashville

2.1 Gateway to Heritage / I-40

2.2 American Baptist College

2.3 Clark Memorial Methodist Church

2.4 Fisk University

2.5 Jubilee Hall

2.6 Tennessee State University

2.7 Hadley Park

2.8 Meharry Medical College

2.9 Nashville Greenlands

2.10 Pearl High School

2.11 Planned Parenthood

2.12 The Tennessee State Penitentiary

2.13 William Edmondson Park

2.14 John Henry Hale Apartments

2.15 Z. Alexander Looby's Home

2.16 Bordeaux Landfill

2.17 Southern Publishing Association

2.18 Beaman Park / Bells Bend

3. Northeast

An Introduction to Northeast Nashville

3.1 John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge

3.2 Greenwood Cemetery

3.3 Edgefield House

3.4 Sunday Night Soul at the 5 Spot

3.5 QDP

3.6 Hattie Cotton Elementary

3.7 First Baptist Church of East Nashville

3.8 Winfrey's Barber Shop

3.10 Cornelia Fort Park

3.11 Nashville National Cemetery / US Colored Troops National Monument

3.12 Mansker Station.

3.13 Gass's Store / Cinco de Mayo Mexican Restaurant

4. Southeast

An Introduction to Southeast Nashville

4.1 Nashville International Airport / Nashville Metro Taxi Drivers Alliance

4.2 The Camps of Saint Cloud Hill

4.3 Wilson Park

4.4 Nashville Fairgrounds

4.5 Casa Azafrán

4.6 Clairmont Apartments

4.7 The Buddhist Temple

4.8 La Hacienda Taqueria y SuperMercado

4.9 Workers' Dignity

4.10 Global Mall at the Crossings

4.11 Hands On Nashville Urban Farm

4.12 Salahadeen Center

4.13 Nashville Zoo at Grassmere

5. Southwest

An Introduction to Southwest Nashville

5.1 Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

5.2 Nashville Musicians Association, AFM Local 257

5.3 Nashville Songwriters Association International

5.4 Music Row / Quonset Hut

5.5 Edgehill United Methodist Church

5.6 Edgehill Village

5.7 Scarritt Bennett Center

5.8 Roger Williams University

5.9 Vanderbilt Divinity School

5.10 Confederate Memorial Hall

5.11 Memorial Gymnasium

5.12 Vanderbilt Kirkland Hall / Occupy Vanderbilt

5.13 Centennial Park

5.14 The Parthenon

5.15 Fannie Mae Dees Park

5.16 International Market and Restaurant

5.17 Carver Food Park

5.18 CCA/CoreCivic

5.19 Glendale Baptist Church

5.20 Radnor Lake

5.21 Gordon Jewish Community Center

5.22 Aaittafama' Archeological Park

6. On the Road

6.1 Promise Land

6.2 Wessyngton Plantation

6.3 Coal Creek Miners Museum

6.4 Highlander Research and Education Center

6.5 Islamic Center of Murfreesboro

6.6 The Town of Old Jefferson

6.7 The Farm

6.8 Giles County Trail of Tears Interpretive Center

6.9 Walnut Street Bridge, Chattanooga

6.10 Mound Bottom

6.11 Fayette County Courthouse

7. Thematic Tours

7.1 "It City"

7.2 Athens of the South

7.3 Music City.

7.4 Southern Hospitality

Recommended Reading.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780826501547

0826501540

9780826501530

0826501532

OCLC:

1247157985