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9780826501530: I'll Take You There: Exploring Nashville's Social Justice Sites
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ISBN 10: 0826501532 ISBN 13: 9780826501530
Editorial: Vanderbilt University Press, 2021

Sinopsis

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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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.

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Editorial
Vanderbilt University Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0826501532
ISBN 13 
9780826501530
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
222
Editor
Thurber Amie, Williams Learotha
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