Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons is excited to invite proposals for presentations at the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long symposium will be held on April 26, 2013 in...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...procedural rules that give Democrats a strong voice in legislative debates." The North Carolina NAACP has organized a series of protests every Monday since April 29, 2013 in opposition to cuts in...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...with the geographies of: historical memory and memorialization economic inequality and everyday precarity political boundaries (redistricting, voter suppression) forced migration, slavery, and human trafficking racial violence, hate crimes LGBTQ+ perspectives,...
Dirty Little Story
...days of work. You would need gloves, a mask and a backhoe. This public beach seems emblematic of all that is wrong with American culture. On the one hand, you...
The Cobb County Braves
On Monday, November 11, residents of the city of Atlanta were surprised to learn that their baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, will move to a new suburban stadium in 2017....
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...on the project, I think I succeeded to varying degrees in different places, and perhaps not at all in some. Given the fact that I could spend only a day...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
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...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...resources addressing these topics. To listen to the voices and prioritize the recommendations of those who experience systemic and everyday acts of racism and racist violence as we further our...