I would like to extend my gratitude to Dr. Rebecca Graff at Lake Forest College for her expertise on the Mecca and her generosity with her resources and time.
I would also like to express thanks to Teri Rueb for our conversation on her work that inspired the form of this project.
Further thanks to D.N. Rodowick and Solveig Nelson for sharing resources from Overlay (2015).
Last but certainly not least, many thank-you's to Shelby Lynn Bias for her performances of excerpts from Gwendolyn Brooks's In the Mecca. You can find Shelby on Instagram at @lilshelbylynn.
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