An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

African American Studies

Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History

Steve Suitts, Atlanta, Georgia
4 June 2013
article

Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South

Angela D. Dillard, University of Michigan
23 April 2013
review

Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery

Peter McCandless, College of Charleston
28 February 2013
review

Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906

Aaron Reynolds, University of Texas, Austin
21 January 2013
article

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University
8 January 2013
article

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

Coleman Hutchison, University of Texas at Austin
25 December 2012
presentation

Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places

Sarah H. Hill, Independent Scholar
4 December 2012
review

A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans

Holly Hobbs, Tulane University
20 November 2012
review

Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live

Matt Miller, Emory University
4 October 2012
review

Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else

Jesse Freeman, Filmmaker
26 June 2012
article

"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Sarah Quigley, Manuscript Archivist at Emory University
12 June 2012
article

Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground

Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University
8 May 2012
review

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

Brent M. S. Campney, The University of Texas-Pan American
13 March 2012
review

"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High

Ruthie Yow, Yale University
20 February 2012
article

Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver
26 January 2012
review

Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond

Nick Spitzer, Tulane University
28 November 2011
article

A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition

William G. Thomas III, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
26 July 2011
article

Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia

Scott Nesbit, University of Richmond
19 July 2011
article

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

Claudrena N. Harold, University of Virginia
12 July 2011
article

"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later

Ellen Spears, University of Alabama
16 June 2011
review

The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the U.S. South

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Brown University
18 March 2011
article

Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"

George King, Independent Documentary Filmmaker
2 December 2010
short video

"Holding on to Those Who Can't be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia

Mark Auslander, Brandeis University
8 November 2010
article

Low Country Travelers:  An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina

Nancy Marshall, Photographer

John McWilliams, Photographer
21 October 2010
photo essay

Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye

Brett Gadsden, Emory University

J. Todd Moye, University of North Texas
30 September 2010
presentation

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
29 July 2010
review

The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation

Steve Suitts, Southern Education Foundation
29 June 2010
article

Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques

Jamillah Karim, Spelman College
31 May 2010
article

The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes

Mark Auslander, Brandeis University
13 May 2010
article

Anniversary

Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver
15 April 2010
presentation

Naming Each Place

Jericho Brown, University of San Diego
4 March 2010
presentation

Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869

Peter West, Adelphi University
9 February 2010
article

A City Divided

LeeAnn Lands, Kennesaw State University
29 December 2009
article

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University
10 December 2009
presentation

A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium

Sarah Melton, Emory University
15 October 2009
short video

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

Susan Harbage Page, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Juan Logan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
21 September 2009
presentation

Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations

Michael Bibler, The University of Manchester
8 July 2009
presentation

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

Ellen Spears, Emory University
29 June 2009
article

Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Emory University
15 June 2009
presentation

Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville

John Egerton, Nashville, Tennessee
4 May 2009
article

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University
27 April 2009
article

Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the U.S. South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
26 March 2009
article

The Morning with Many Tongues

Sean Hill, Stanford University
27 February 2009
presentation

New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools

Beth Tarasawa, Emory University
19 January 2009
article

Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama, 2003

Dagmar Nelson, Photographer
1 January 2009
featured image

"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of U.S. Slave Society

Anthony E. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University
3 September 2008
article

Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997–2007

Matt Miller, Emory University
10 June 2008
article

Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local

Minrose Gwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11 March 2008
presentation

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
6 March 2008
review

Rising Up

Produced by the Community Ideas Stations in partnership with
University of Virginia, 2005.
4 January 2008
short video

Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers

Terry Easton, Emory University
21 December 2007
article

Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?

Craig Womack, Emory University
20 November 2007
presentation

Deep Ellum Blues

Kevin Pask, Concordia University
30 October 2007
article

Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"

Ed Piacentino, High Point University
28 August 2007
article

Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band

Keith Reynaud, New York, New York
20 December 2006
short video

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University
29 September 2006
presentation

Inside Poor Monkey's

Luther Brown, Delta State University
22 June 2006
article

Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline

Constance Curry, Atlanta, Georgia
24 June 2005
presentation

Elegy for the Native Guards

Natasha Trethewey, Emory University
10 June 2005
presentation

Negotiating Black Identities

Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan
3 May 2005
presentation

Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
3 November 2004
article

The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War

Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
2 November 2004
presentation

The Civil Rights Archive

Gwen Patton, Trenholm State Technical College
23 June 2004
presentation

African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
20 March 2004
article

African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
17 March 2004
article

African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
16 March 2004
article

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

Steve Bransford, Emory University
16 March 2004
article

Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
4 March 2004
article

Local Color

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
29 February 2004
article