Southern Cultures
Edited by Harry Watson, UNC Chapel Hill, and Marcie Cohen Ferris, UNC Chapel Hill
Frequency: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
Latest Issue: Volume 26, 2020
Size: 7” x 10”, average length 125 pages
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: 1068-8218
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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.
Malinda Maynor Lowery is an associate professor in the Department of History and is director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marcie Cohen Ferris is associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Editors
Harry Watson and Marcie Cohen Ferris
Executive Editor
Ayse Erginer
Deputy Editor & Art Director
Emily Wallace
Managing Editor
Emma Calabrese
Associate Editor
Katharine Henry
Media & Production
Ashley Melzer
Poetry Editor
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Music Editor
Aaron Smithers
Editorial Assistants
Marina Greenfeld
Mitra Norowzi
Founding Editor
John Shelton Reed
Table of Contents
Spring 2020: The Documentary Moment
Front Porch
by Harry Watson
Introduction
The Documentary Moment and the Revelation at Hand
by Tom Rankin
You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History
On Abiding Metaphors and Finding a Calling
by Natasha Trethewey
Snapshot: I Name Charlotte
by Tamika Galanis
Photo Essay
Gas Station South
photographs by Kate Medley
West Worthinghouse Long Jr.
Creating Dangerously in The Land Where the Blues Began
by Tyler DeWayne Moore
Snapshot: My Niece, Maggie
by Phyllis B. Dooney
Snapshot: West Southern Pines, North Carolina, July 2019
by Lynn Marshall Linnemeier
Photo Essay
Forty Sundays a Year
New Orleans Second Line Parades
photographs by Pableaux Johnson
Photo Essay
RV Landscapes
photographs by Joanna Welborn
Snapshot: Buxton, Iowa (Munroe County)
by Rachel Jessen
Snapshot: Burning Fields, Parchman Farm, Mississippi, 2016
by Jeremy M. Lange
Makeshifting
Black Women and Resilient Creativity in the Rural South
by Kimber Thomas
Snapshot: Paradise Road, Baytown, Texas
by Eliot Dudik
Snapshot: The Revival
by Rox Campbell
Photo Essay
Bare Handed
photographs by Holly Lynton
Snapshot: A Tribute
by Jon-Sesrie Goff
Not Forgotten
Empathy in a Red State
by Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Snapshot: Waughtown Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2019
by Aaron Canipe
Snapshot: Willow, 37
by Jared Ragland
Mason–Dixon Lines
Space Blanket
poetry by Alan Shapiro
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