Southern Cultures: Disability

Volume 29, Number 1 - Spring 2023 Issue

Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris, Regina Bradley

Southern Cultures: Disability

112 pp., 7 x 10

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7735-4
    Published: April 2023

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Distributed for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the American South

"Rejecting the well-worn narratives of pity, scorn, othering, and medicalization that exist primarily for the benefit of the non-disabled, disabled people insist on better and richer stories about disability as a way of being and a way of knowing," writes guest editor Charles L. Hughes. "This issue is rooted in a commitment to this call."

About the Author

Marcie Cohen Ferris is professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a former president of the Southern Foodways Alliance.
For more information about Marcie Cohen Ferris, visit the Author Page.