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	A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation 4.19 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Who: Learotha Williams, professor at TSU; Jennifer Justus, a local food writer, & me
What: a virtual chat about #HotHotChicken
Where: Via any device that connects to the internet, hosted by The Bookshop
When: April 5, 7 pm CDT
Why: Because I wrote Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story!
How: https://bit.ly/3woFiOy

@thebookshopnashville presents Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story, virtual conversation, free to attend, April 5, 7 PM Central

@thebookshopnashville presents Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story, virtual conversation, free to attend, April 5, 7 PM Central

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Rachel Louise said: " “Focusing on a single dish and the branches of the Prince family who created it, Rachel Louise Martin uses Nashville's signature, world-famous hot chicken to guide us through the history of a quintessential southern American town. This book serves as “Focusing on a single dish and the branches of the Prince family who created it, Rachel Louise Martin uses Nashville's signature, world-famous hot chicken to guide us through the history of a quintessential southern American town. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to a great city and to the people who were positively influenced by the very African American culture it sought, so often, to undermine. The delicacy of hot chicken is a thread between two cultures and gives historical perspective to this culinary craze.”
—Carla Hall, chef and author of Carla Hall's Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration

“Nashville hot chicken is what best represents the soul of the city, and Rachel Martin describes its storied history. With a crunchy, spicy exterior, and a warm, melting center, it embodies what Nashville is all about.”
—Maneet Chauhan, James Beard Award–winning chef, TV personality, restaurateur, and author of Chaat

“Historically, when we have heard about chicken and African American communities, it is from the perspective of stereotypes and offenses. Rachel Louise Martin has joined the voices that are turning the tide on recognizing the many contributions made by African Americans to cooking ‘the gospel bird.’ From their migration to Nashville to the present, Martin has shared the story of the Prince family and their place in history as the primary creators of the hot chicken phenomena. This is exciting reading filled with nuggets of African American histories of food, taste, labor, economics, race, gender, place, region, community, and so much more. It is at the same time a gastronomic study, memoir, and illumination of perseverance as much as it is about the ways culinary landscapes can be contentious and even triumphant. It can and should be taught in courses on entrepreneurship, labor, storytelling, material culture, and regionalism, among so many others. And, it absolutely is a food history that should be read by all!”
—Psyche Williams-Forson, author of Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power ...more "

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“And frankly, few things were as fundamental to the American way of life as racism.”
― Rachel Louise Martin, A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

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“Or, as one founder of the Tennessee White Youth told me when I asked him for an interview, “Honey, there was a lot of ugliness down at the school that year; best we just move on and forget it.”
― Rachel Louise Martin, A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

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“did forget about Clinton High School, the students and teachers and parents and townspeople affected by the story could not. Their experiences had changed them, scarred them, broken them. Some were able to rebuild their lives, but others were not. Two of the people I’d come to admire—complicated individuals with the hamartias necessary for classical heroes—never recovered. Both would die by suicide. The first lesson of this book is this: History is the story of human beings, individuals responding to events already in motion and seldom under their control.”
― Rachel Louise Martin, A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

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