Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...to mention corporate, spirit of the modern American South." Soper's illustration highlights The World of Coca-Cola and Underground Atlanta, two attempts to revitalize Atlanta's downtown through tourism that were made...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...(2019): 21–37, https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2018.1468745; and Tara L. Parker and Kathleen M. Neville, "The Influence of Racial Identity on White Students' Perceptions of African American Faculty," The Review of Higher Education 42,...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...South Intersections of music with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Native American musics, Latina/o musics, musics of immigrant groups Local music scenes: punk, hardcore, rock, folk, hip-hop, emerging...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946–1988, and LeeAnn Lands, Associate Professor of American Studies and History, Kennesaw State University and author of The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Katherine Hankins, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Georgia State University, and Zephyr Frank, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of Stanford University's Spatial...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It is accessible via a web link, and requires no download. (https://battle-of-atlanta.opentour.site/tours) The event will...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...grateful that he shared some of these with us and that, through our documentary, we now share this with others. Visit The Well-Placed Weed's website for more information and to...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...hit African Americans especially hard. Widespread poverty for generations following Reconstruction exposed hundreds of thousands of poor, rural southerners to hookworm infection and pellagra. By the end of the nineteenth...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...co-founded NEXUS, Atlanta’s first photography gallery, in 1973. Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, Simone studied at the Rhode Island School of Design with modern American photography master Harry Callahan. Simone’s photos...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...