Thursday, September 18 2025, 5:15 - 6:15pm Cine (234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA) Thursday, Sep. 18th, 5:15 PM Cine (234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA) Join the Special Collections Libraries on Thursday, September 18th at 5:15pm at Cine for a screening and panel discussion of the documentary film Displaced in the New South. A light reception will follow in the Lab space. This event is free and open to the public; tickets are available through the Cine website or box office. For more information email jhebbard@uga.edu. The film explores the cultural collision between Asian and Hispanic immigrants and the suburban communities near Atlanta where they settled in the early 1990s. A connected exhibit, Displaced in the New South: A Photography Project by David Zieger, is on display at the University of Georgia's Special Collections Building now through December 2025. It features photographs, negatives, and other artifacts from the documentary to showcase the shifting demographics, experience of immigrant families, and the emerging communities formed. The screening is co-sponsored by the University of Georgia's Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, and the Willson Center for Arts and Humanities. More About the Film In 1980, there were a few thousand Asian and Latino immigrants in Georgia. By 1994, there were more than 300,000. Displaced in the New South explores the cultural collision between Asian and Hispanic immigrants and the suburban communities near Atlanta where they settled. Featuring unforgettable people like Suttiwan Cox, ESL teacher and stand-up comic, the film is a moving, sensitive case study of a nationwide trend that is bringing explosive political upheaval all across the country."
