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

Frequency: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
Latest Issue: Volume 29, 2023
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 and Regina N. Bradley
Executive Editor
Ayşe Erginer
Deputy Editor & Art Director
Emily Wallace
Managing Editor
Annie Lubinsky
Associate Editors
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
Spring 2023: Disability
Introduction
To Build for the Future
by Charles L. Hughes
Intimacies of Sound and Skin at Carville
by Adria L. Imada
Upbeat Down South
“Up on Cripple Creek”
Limb Loss, Difference, and Disability Spectacle in Southern Roots Music
by Simon Buck
“You Know Who I Am?
I’m Mr. John Paul’s Boy”
by Keri Watson
Lines Drawn
Drawing All Over Again
Remembering Patrick Dean
by Robert Newsome
Southern Voices
“The blues look like me”
Leroy F. Moore Jr. in conversation with Charles L. Hughes
Curiously Cured by Sterilization
Charles Carrington and the Sterilization of
African American Men in Virginia, 1902–1910
by Shelby Pumphrey
Not Forgotten
Wade Taylor
A Family Haunting
by R. Larkin Taylor-Parker
Back Porch
by Marcie Cohen Ferris
Mason-Dixon Lines
What We Be
poetry by Camisha L. Jones
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