Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...June 2009, “more than eight million Americans lost their jobs, nearly four million were foreclosed each year, and 2.5 million businesses were shuttered.”1Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, “The Great Recession: Over but...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
Review "By branding the South as the racist section of the country," writes Brent Campney, "those narrating the identity of other sections have found a foil against which they can...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
Review In May 2015, journalist Steve Inskeep wrote an op-ed for the New York Times arguing that nineteenth-century Cherokee leader John Ross should be featured on the opposite side of...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...a representation of black experience in America. Brotherman illustrator, Dawud Anyabwile, visited Emory University on June 5, 2015 as a guest lecturer for Clint Fluker's Visual Culture class, Black Comix (IDS 216),...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...regarding impacts of oil and gas operations persisted. BP Oil Spill Protest NOLA Royalties Now, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user Infrogmation. Creative Commons license CC BY...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
Logo, On Second Thought, Georgia Public Broadcasting. Southern Spaces author Karen Beck Pooley was featured in a June 16, 2015 interview on Georgia Public Broadcasting's radio program On Second Thought....
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...style and formatting. Please submit proposals (350–700 words), papers, or projects to seditor@emory.edu by February 15, 2013. Related Southern Spaces Links Amberg, Rob. "I-26, Corridor of Change." Southern Spaces, June 5, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/i-26-corridor-change. ...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Robert Chambless, Michael Thompson and Joyce Walton lead a song at a Sacred Harp singing, Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church, Bremen, Georgia, June 2, 2012. Sommers’ account demonstrates how associating...
Bear Branch, North Carolina
...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...