Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...Souths Southern Labor Studies Association, New Orleans March 7–9, 2013 The Southern Labor Studies Association is soliciting panels for its 2013 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference theme, the...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...Contributing to a segment titled "Defining Diversity, Segregated Cities, Break It Down: Gerrymandering," Pooley spoke about her research on Atlanta's demographics and school segregation. Suburbanizing Atlanta, Georgia, March 31, 2009....
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
Amos Kennedy Print, Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. On March 15, 2016, acclaimed printmaker Amos Kennedy, Jr. participated in a public conversation about...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...a potentially "enlightening" mode of "exiting the realm of our most basic assumptions."2Duck, "Southern Nonidentity," Safundi 9, no. 3 (2008): 329. For scholars such as Duck, the problem with "the...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and much more. Despite its short 3:45-minute length, this video's content, combined with its brief narrated descriptions, can inspire an hour or more of classroom discussion of natural and human...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...and hookworm eradication, see José Amador, "The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico," Southern Spaces, March 30, 2017, https://southernspaces.org/2017/pursuit-health-colonialism-and-hookworm-eradication-puerto-rico. This photograph from 1910 suggests the continuing...
Dirty Little Story
...blue. We march down to the public place where even those without lakeside homes and boats can go to get their toes wet. We struggle to the bottom of the...
Gone With the Wind
...anymore. Published in Southern Quarterly 45.1 (Fall 2007): 53-54. Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...