Locations:
Locations are short (800—2,000 word) commentaries,
reviews, and essays that combine topicality and spatiality.
Grace Elizabeth Hale reviews Karl Hagstrom Miller's Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow. Published: 29 July 2010
Steve Suitts investigates the implications of a report
recently released by the Southern Education Foundation that addresses childhood
poverty concentrated in the U.S. South. Published: 29 June 2010
Jamillah Karim explores gendered mosque spaces and interactions
between Atlanta's African American and South Asian Muslims. Published: 31 May 2010
Joseph Crespino analyzes the addition of Strom
Thurmond's African American daughter's name to his South Carolina
State House statue. Published: 29 April 2010
Using her own experiences in Decatur, Georgia, Allison
Adams discusses the politics and rising popularity of chicken keeping
in urban
areas.
Published: 30 March 2010
Through this online exhibit, artist collective John Q maps discursive memorials at public sites in Atlanta's queer histories.
Published: 26 February 2010
Mikko Saikku examines the relationship between social
and environmental history using the ecoregion of the Mississippi Delta.
Published: 28 January 2010
Through the case of Jackson Hill, LeAnn Lands describes
the turn toward residential segregation in early twentieth-century
Atlanta.
Published: 29 December 2009
Nancy Lowe approaches the idea of "single centers
of creation" through
salamander diversity in the Southern Appalachian mountains.
Published: 30 November 2009
Saralyn Chesnut, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth Anderson explore the history of Charis Books and More, Atlanta's feminist bookstore. Published: 3 November 2009
Shirley Stewart Burns decries the ecological devastation produced by mountaintop removal in Appalachia. Published: 30 September 2009
In Memphis, writes Wanda Rushing, each new wave of development strategies tends to reproduce old patterns of inequality. Published: 28 August 2009
Lawrence Powell rediscovers Lyle Saxon, editor of the WPA
Guide to New Orleans, and finds his urban scene startlingly
recognizable. Published: 29 July 2009
Ellen Spears examines the ongoing struggle to create
a memorial honoring the Freedom Riders during the 1961 bus bombing
in Anniston, Alabama. Published: 29 June 2009
Denise Giardina evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountain top removal in this excerpt from her novel, Fallam's Secret. Published: 21 May 2009
Amy Louise Wood revisits an operahouse lynching in Livermore,
Kentucky.
Published: 27 April 2009
Charles Reagan Wilson considers connections between three
sites of racial reconciliation work. Published: 26 March 2009
James Oliver Horton explores how slavery is discussed at historical plantation sites. Published: 16 February 2009
Beth Tarasawa writes about the changing patterns of school segregation for Latino and African American students in Atlanta. Published: 19 January 2009
Joseph Crespino examines the concept of the Sunbelt in the 2008 Presidential Election. Published: 11 December 2008
Steve Bransford traces the relationship between roots music and documentary film. Published: 3 November 2008
John Howard revisits a Japanese American concentration camp. Published: 2 October 2008
Anthony Kaye questions the monolithic category of "community." Published: 3 September 2008
Allen Tullos considers the shifting political meanings of Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge. Published: 28 July 2008
Still need a South? Scott Romine charts two "uncannily familiar" historical positions for locating one in this short essay. Published: 25 June 2008
Michael Moon discusses visionary geography in the writings of Gertrude Stein. Published: 16 May 2008
Steve Suitts, of the Southern Education Foundation, discusses how low-income households impact public education in the U.S. South. Published: 16 April 2008
Grace Elizabeth Hale reviews the traveling art exhibit "Kara
Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love." Published:
6 March 2008
