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

Urban and Suburban Studies

A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate

Edward A. Hatfield, Emory University
29 April 2013
article

No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy

Lynn Weber, University of South Carolina
17 August 2012
article

A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

Katherine Mooney, Yale University
26 July 2012
review

The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism

Darren E. Grem, Emory University
8 March 2012
presentation

Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo

Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University
17 January 2012
review

Burning bright, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2009

Ashley Bradford, Photographer
28 February 2011
featured image

Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"

George King, Independent Documentary Filmmaker
2 December 2010
short video

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

Dorothy Moye, Decatur, Georgia
26 August 2010
photo essay

Traveling Richmond at night, Richmond, Virginia, 2009

Jason Day, Photographer
15 June 2010
featured image

Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques

Jamillah Karim, Spelman College
31 May 2010
article

Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement

Allison O. Adams, Decatur, Georgia
30 March 2010
article

Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces

Artist Collective John Q (Wesley Chenault, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr), Atlanta, Georgia
26 February 2010
article

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

John Howard, King's College London
26 January 2010
photo essay

A City Divided

LeeAnn Lands, Kennesaw State University
29 December 2009
article

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

Cameron B. LeBlanc, Emory University
22 December 2009
article

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University
10 December 2009
presentation

Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space

Saralyn Chesnut, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth Anderson, Atlanta, Georgia
3 November 2009
article

City Hall sleeps, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009

Matt Berger, Photographer
30 September 2009
featured image

Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, & Biotechnology

Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis
28 August 2009
article

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

Dorothy Moye, Decatur, Georgia
26 August 2009
article

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University
29 July 2009
article

Oakland Cemetery

Steve Bransford, Atlanta, Georgia
13 July 2009
short video

Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause

Clive Webb, University of Sussex
22 June 2009
article

Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville

John Egerton, Nashville, Tennessee
4 May 2009
article

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Patrick Phillips, Drew University
14 April 2009
presentation

New house, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1996

Bruce West, Photographer
1 April 2009
featured image

A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

Margaret T. McGehee, Presbyterian College
9 March 2009
article

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

Beth Tarasawa, Emory University
19 January 2009
article

Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising

Amie Vanderford, Photographer
7 July 2008
photo essay

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

Matt Miller, Emory University
10 June 2008
article

Krog Street Tunnel

Mary Battle, Emory University
30 May 2008
short video

Development, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 2007

Mary Battle, Photographer
1 February 2008
featured image

Monkey Puzzle

Matt Miller, Emory University
22 January 2008
short video

Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920

Sarah Toton, Emory University
15 January 2008
article

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

Terry Easton, Emory University
21 December 2007
article

Deep Ellum Blues

Kevin Pask, Concordia University
30 October 2007
article

Dekalb Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005

Sarah Toton, Photographer
15 September 2007
featured image

Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities

David Wharton, University of Mississippi
28 February 2007
photo essay

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

Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future

Nick Spitzer, University of New Orleans
29 August 2006
presentation

Daffin Park

Steve Bransford, Emory University
4 August 2006
short video

Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered

S Zebulon Baker (compiler), Emory University

Illustrations by Kerry Soper, Brigham Young University
21 March 2006
article

White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta

Kevin Kruse, Princeton University
28 November 2005
presentation

Negotiating Black Identities

Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan
3 May 2005
presentation

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Dana White, Emory University; Robert Holmes, Clark Atlanta University; Susan McGrath, Georgia Perimeter College; Timothy Crimmins, Georgia State University
5 August 2004
presentation

Music in Memphis

Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
31 March 2004
article

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

Love and Death at Second-Line

Nick Spitzer, University of New Orleans
20 February 2004
article