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
Fall 2020: The Women’s Issue
Guest Editor: Jessica Wilkerson
Front Porch
by Marcie Cohen Ferris
Introduction
Pointing a Way Forward
by Jessica Wilkerson
Remembering Ida, Ida Remembering: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Black Political Culture in Reconstruction-Era Mississippi
by Beth Kruse, Rhondalyn K. Peairs, Jodi Skipper, and Shennette Garrett-Scott
“The Laws Have Hurt Me”: Violence, Violation, and Black Women’s Struggles for Civil Rights
by Adriane Lentz-Smith
Photo Essay
Holding On
photographs by Andrea Morales
“Come Out Slugging!”: The Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, 1972–1975
by Rachel Gelfand
“Saving the Life That Is Your Own”: Southern Women Writers’ Great Migrations
by Keira V. Williams
How to Become a Woman
by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal
Southern Voices
To Belong Aquí y Allá
Maggie Loredo in conversation with Perla Guerrero
“No, You’re Not Going to Shut Me Up”: The Day Rep. Renitta Shannon Wouldn’t Sit Down for Georgia’s Abortion Ban
Renitta Shannon in conversation with Cynthia R. Greenlee
Voices from the SOHP
In Place to Make Change: NC2020 and the Commemoration of Women’s Suffrage
by Jennifer Standish, Calissa Vicenta Andersen, Siani Antoine, Flannery Fitch, and Kyende Kinoti
Not Forgotten
Enshrining Proud Shoes in Brick and Mortar: A UNC History PhD Reflects on Pauli Murray Hall
by Hilary N. Green
Mason–Dixon Lines
Witnessing
Resistance Poetry
haiku by Crystal Simone Smith
introduced by Sheila Smith McKoy
About the Contributors
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