The Norris Project
The Norris Project

Author: Tennessee Valley Authority

Publisher:

Published: 1940

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13:

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This report is published for the purpose of giving to the engineering profession the important and useful facts about the planning and construction of the Norris Dam and Reservoir on the Clinch River, in eastern Tennessee, by the Tennessee Valley Authority, an agency of the United States Government.

TVA and the Dispossessed
TVA and the Dispossessed

Author: Michael J. McDonald

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2002-06

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781572331648

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One of the most notable agencies of the New Deal era, the Tennessee Valley Authority was created with a warrant to plan for the socioeconomic improvement of "forgotten" Americans. The construction of the Norris Dam, it was thought, would benefit the region socially as well as economically. This book analyzes and assesses TVA's social experiment in modernization at the grassroots level, using population removal in the Norris Basin as a test case.

The Grace of Silence
The Grace of Silence

Author: Michele Norris

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0307475271

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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star. A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered. While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama’s election, Michele Norris discovered that there were painful secrets within her own family that had been willfully withheld. These revelations—from her father’s shooting by a Birmingham police officer to her maternal grandmother’s job as an itinerant Aunt Jemima in the Midwest—inspired a bracing journey into her family’s past, from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South. The result is a rich and extraordinary family memoir—filled with stories that elegantly explore the power of silence and secrets—that boldly examines racial legacy and what it means to be an American.

Deconstruction and the 'unfinished Project of Modernity'
Deconstruction and the 'unfinished Project of Modernity'

Author: Christopher Norris

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780485121599

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Deconstrution has been widely and damagingly misunderstood. In this provocative new book, Christopher Norris challenges the prevalent idea that deconstruction is merely a more specialized philosophical offshoot of these various trends and cultural fashions grouped under the label of 'postmoderism'.