An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

Changing Atlanta

"Changing Atlanta" is an ongoing collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications exploring the Atlanta metropolitan region. Pieces in this series interpret sites of cultural significance, as well as spatial imaginaries, engaging such topics as racial segregation, immigration, urban sprawl, biography, neighborhood creation, and popular representations of Atlanta.

Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces

Artist Collective John Q (Wesley Chenault, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr), Atlanta, Georgia
26 February 2010
article

Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered

S Zebulon Baker (compiler), Emory University

Illustrations by Kerry Soper, Brigham Young University
21 March 2006
article

Krog Street Tunnel

Mary Battle, Emory University
30 May 2008
short video

Oakland Cemetery

Steve Bransford, Atlanta, Georgia
13 July 2009
short video

Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space

Saralyn Chesnut, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth Anderson, Atlanta, Georgia
3 November 2009
article

Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers

Terry Easton, Emory University
21 December 2007
article

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

John Howard, King's College London
26 January 2010
photo essay

Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques

Jamillah Karim, Spelman College
31 May 2010
article

A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

Margaret T. McGehee, Presbyterian College
9 March 2009
article

African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
17 March 2004
article

African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
16 March 2004
article

African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
20 March 2004
article

Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997–2007

Matt Miller, Emory University
10 June 2008
article

Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta

Mary Odem, Emory University
19 May 2006
presentation

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Patrick Phillips, Drew University
14 April 2009
presentation

New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools

Beth Tarasawa, Emory University
19 January 2009
article

Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870-1920

Sarah Toton, Emory University
15 January 2008
article

Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause

Clive Webb, University of Sussex
22 June 2009
article

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Dana White, Emory University; Robert Holmes, Clark Atlanta University; Susan McGrath, Georgia Perimeter College; Timothy Crimmins, Georgia State University
5 August 2004
presentation

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University
29 September 2006
presentation