Southern Cultures
Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris, UNC Chapel Hill, and Tom Rankin, 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
Marcie Cohen Ferris and Tom Rankin
Executive Editor
Ayse Erginer
Deputy Editor & Art Director
Emily Wallace
Managing Editor
Emma Calabrese
Associate Editor
Katharine Henry
Editorial Fellow
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
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
Winter 2021: The Imaginary South
Guest Editor: Zandria F. Robinson
Front Porch
by Tom Rankin
Introduction
Digging, Flapping, Churning, Soaring
by Zandria F. Robinson
The Most Caribbean of Stories
by Maya Doig-Acuña
Photo Essay
Refuge
photographs by Houston Cofield
Escape-Bound: Juana Luz Tobar Ortega’s Fugitive Poetics
by Barbara Sostaita
Photo Essay
Taking Our First Steps
photographs by Patricia Crosby
Southern Voices
“To Live and Thrive on New Earths”: The Earthseed Land Collective and Black Freedom
by Danielle M. Purifoy
The Making of Appalachian Mississippi
by Justin Randolph
Photo Essay
Looking for Bigfoot
photographs by Cassandra Klos
The “Good Old Rebel” at the Heart of the Radical Right
by Joseph M. Thompson
Not Forgotten
Two Rivers
by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Mason–Dixon Lines
Charismatic Megafauna
poetry by Tiana Nobile
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