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
Ayşe Erginer
Deputy Editor & Art Director
Emily Wallace
Managing Editor
Emma Calabrese
Associate Editor
Katharine Henry
Editorial Fellow
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 2021: The Abolitionist South
Guest Editors: T. Dionne Bailey and Garrett Felber
Front Porch
by Marcie Cohen Ferris
Introduction
Until There Is Victory
by T. Dionne Bailey and Garrett Felber
Not Forgotten
The Radical Yes
A Constellation of Mutual Aid Projects in Charlottesville
by Lyndsey Beutin, with Cherry Henley, B. Esi Okesanya, and Sally Williamson
POV
Locked in Dark Calm
by Tameca Cole
Photo Essay
Looking for Abolition
by Tiffany E. Barber and Adrian L. Burrell
POV
The System I Imagine
by Antonio Rosa
Southern Voices
The Life in This Movement
Jared Ware in conversation with Maurice Smith of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
Riot and Reclamation
Black Women, Prison Labor, and Resistive Desires
by Micah Khater
POV
Texas Prisons
A Million Unanswered Questions
by Britney Gulley
Food, Punishment, and the Angola Three’s Struggle for Freedom, 1971–2019
by Gabrielle Corona
Amnesty for All
Organizing against Criminalization in Post-Katrina New Orleans
by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
POV
Incarceration Is Spiritual Death
by Antoine M. Lipscomb
Keep the South Dirty and Our Needles Clean
by Laura McTighe, with Catherine Haywood, Deon Haywood, and Danita Muse of Women With A Vision
POV
Stand Strong, Stand Long
by Loretta Pierre
Mason-Dixon Lines
the portal appears
poetry by Destiny Hemphill
introduced by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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