Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...Statistics from The Sentencing Project demonstrate the racial disparities documented by Chang. A case being heard in Charlotte, North Carolina’s Immigration Court today will demonstrate the limits of recent policy...
Remnants of Flannery
...Order 10450, which made it legal to hunt down and fire gay and lesbian government employees. The policy lasted until President Clinton officially rescinded it in 1995. What exactly O'Connor...
Sapelo Island Flyover
Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...responsibility to LGBTQ+ subjects Queer theory and feminist theory (pasts, presents, futures) Reconsidering the queer theory canon (Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, and other foundational theorists) Social Justice and Public Policy Violence,...
Dirty Little Story
...have government so broke at every level—federal, state, and county—it can't afford to keep its nice places clean. TVA doesn't enforce its no-littering policy. Probably doesn't have the manpower. The...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...women working at the store constituted the board. By 1980, however, the membership of the advisory board/collective, who made decisions about store policy, included women who were no longer working...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...rights, and spaces demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural populations immigration, refugees, and citizenship incarceration, internment, and the carceral state public health, healthcare policy and access climate change and...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
Introduction Botanical illustration of Cannabis sativa L. Originally published in Professor Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (Gera, Germany: 1885). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...as the Environmental Defense Fund, and how grassroots organizations have long been critical of the overwhelming white, middle-class staffing and policy orientation of well-funded national groups based in Washington, DC....