Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...to the site selected in 2014 for the Denmark Vesey sculpture, also evokes the shared place and separate pasts in "America's Most Historic City." The monument's placement in a garden...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...to the study of space and place. Interviews are filmed or transcribed conversations with scholars, authors, artists, or others working in areas related to the study of space and place...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...women, like Russell, who established residential and retail districts for Atlanta’s growing black middle class. In 2009, the National Register of Historic Places recognized Collier Heights as the first neighborhood...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...World," the place where we came from and the place that gave birth to our modernity based on the hubristic consumption of sugar, among other superfluous goods. The caricatured portrayal...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...“Theories of Time and Space,” as well as music and/as poetry Part 6: Trethewey discusses Atlanta as retreat and homecoming as well as Decatur and place’s possession of memory Part 7: Trethewey...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...