Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...promoted and rewarded the implementation of New Urban designs: pedestrian-friendly, mixed use, transit-oriented, filled with open spaces, and humanly scaled.56Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon, The Smart Growth Manual...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...instance, posing in explicitly sexual postures with the statue. Rooks's point is especially well taken not only for its crucial political dimension, but also in that, as I argue, the...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Joseph W. Jones Room. Developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...(New York: Random House, 2000). "It is wondrous and hardly explicable to many," wrote Bond and Wilson, "how James Weldon Johnson could have written such spiritually enriching lyrics in 1900...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...to communicate openly and honestly with one another, and without judgment."17 Steve Edwards, "Those 'Bitches' Need Love Too," NEWSWEST, February 19, 1976, Don Kelly Collection in Gay Literature and Culture,...
Encountering COVID
...leaned into heavily was the performing arts because they rely on a live audience. And other vocations that really had a hard time. I overloaded those a bit because they...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...actually be a weirdly satisfying task after a long day of classes—like a mindless video game to chase the ugly punctuation marks—but it took time. There was also no spellcheck....
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a genre called Louisiana apocalyptic noir.3Each Louisiana-based HBO depiction offers smart and problematic depictions. Treme, particularly, lovingly (and perhaps cruelly) recreates the immediate years after Katrina, from drooping ceiling fans...
Editorial Style Guide
...quotes: Southern Spaces prefers straight quotation marks (" ") instead of curly, or smart, quotation marks (“ ”). Microsoft Word often creates smart quotes, but these can be turned off...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...in the face of the terrible fragmentation of family solidarity caused by the domestic slave trade, family lineal memory and continuity endured across at least four generations. Finally, the 150-year...