Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South

The city that continues to house a statue of Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan co-founder Nathan Bedford Forrest also named its library after long-time civil rights activist and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People executive director Benjamin L. Hooks. [...] those disruptions were also opportunities for renewal, resulting in the presence of the country's leading research facility for children's cancer (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital), a renaissance of the downtown area as a tourist attraction, and recent efforrs to reinvigorate a Memphis public school system to focus on a math and science curriculum.