Southern Cultures
Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris, UNC Chapel Hill Tom Rankin, UNC Chapel Hill, and Regina N. Bradley, Kennesaw State University

Frequency: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
Latest Issue: Volume 28, 2022
Size: 7” x 10”, average length 160 pages
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: Print 1068-8218; Digital 1543-1488
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UNC Press joins with the UNC Center for the Study of the American South in publishing Southern Cultures. Founded by John Shelton Reed, this award-winning journal explores the history, politics, folklore, literature, and art of the South. Each issue includes articles and essays; reviews of books, museum exhibitions, films, and sound recordings; and regular features, such as “South Polls,” which present public opinion polls on topics of regional interest. For more information, visit the Southern Cultures website.
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Editors
Marcie Cohen Ferris, Tom Rankin, and Regina N. Bradley
Executive Editor
Ayşe Erginer
Deputy Editor & Art Director
Emily Wallace
Managing Editor
Annie Lubinsky
Associate Editors
Katharine Henry
Irene Newman
Media & Production
Ashley Melzer
Poetry Editors
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Destiny Hemphill
Music Editor
Aaron Smithers
Founding Editors
John Shelton Reed and Harry Watson
Table of Contents
Fall 2022: Inheritance
Introduction
Several Places at Once
by Malinda Maynor Lowery
My Inheritance
by Esther Oganda Ohito
POV
Talk One Thing | Writing Family History in an Afro-Native World
by Kendra Taira Field
Stories We Tell | Unpacking Extractive Research and
Its Legacy of Harm to Lumbee People
by Ryan E. Emanuel and Karen Dial Bird
POV
Loves and Secrets
by Jodi A. Byrd
Frankenstein’s Monster | Constructing a Legal Regime to Regulate Race and Place
by Theodora H. H. Light
POV
Removal, Labor, and Reckoning in the Black Native South
by Nakia D. Parker
Not Forgotten
In a Shallow Boat
by Zachary Faircloth
POV
At the Intersection of Chickasaw Identity and Black Enslavement
by Alaina E. Roberts
Southern Voices
“Necessary Contemplation”
Lauren Frances Adams
in conversation with Jason Patterson
POV
Narratives of Dispossession and Anticolonial Art in Urban Spaces
by Kyle T. Mays
Back Porch
by Marcie Cohen Ferris
Mason-Dixon Lines
Jackson Village Road
poetry by Marlanda Dekine
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