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 27, 2021
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.
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
Summer 2021: Built/Unbuilt
Guest Editor: Burak Erdim
Front Porch
by Tom Rankin
Introduction
A Symbolic Project: Dorton Arena’s Incomplete Legacies
by Burak Erdim
Reptilian State: Florida at the American Museum of Natural History One Hundred Years Ago
by Henry Knight Lozano
Monuments for the Interim Twenty-Four Thousand Years
by Annie Simpson
Photo Essay
How to Build a Home
by Cici Cheng
The Kinetic South
by Alex Hofmann
Grant Park, Atlanta: An Old South Landscape for a New South City
by Steve Gallo
Photo Essay
Something That Must Be Faced: Carrie Mae Weems and the Architecture of Colonization in the Louisiana Project
by Claire Raymond and Jacqueline Taylor
photographs by Carrie Mae Weems
The Great Unbuilding: Land, Labor, and Dispossession in New Orleans and Honduras
by Deniz Daser and Sarah Fouts
Eating Dirt, Searching Archives: Excavations from a Texas Woman
by Endia L. Hayes
Latter-Day Paradises in the Cherokee National Forest
photographs by John Lusk Hathaway
introduced by Mark Long
Not Forgotten
The Lake and the Landfill: In Search of Atlanta’s Lake Charlotte
by Hannah S. Palmer
Mason–Dixon Lines
Make a fence
poetry by Jessica Jacobs
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