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 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
Spring 2021: Human/Nature
Guest Editor: Andy Horowitz
Front Porch
by Marcie Cohen Ferris
Introduction
A Humane Vision
by Andy Horowitz
Snapshot: View from Quiet House, 2016
by Lisa McCarty
Hunting Memories of the Grass Things: An Indigenous Reflection on Bison in Louisiana
by Jeffery U. Darensbourg
Snapshot: Yellow Finch, 2019
by Laura Saunders
In Search of Maudell Sleet’s Garden
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Snapshot: The Tea Room, Vizcaya, 2017
by Anastasia Samoylova
Malik Rahim’s Black Radical Environmentalism
by Joshua B. Guild
Snapshot: Haiku, 2019
by RaMell Ross
A Totally Different Form of Living: On the Legacies
of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies
by Justin Hosbey and J. T. Roane
Snapshot: Two Sides to Every Story, 2014
by Aaron Turner
Photo Essay
Louisiana Trail Riders
by Jeremiah Ariaz
Snapshot: Water Treatment, 2020
by Monique Michelle Verdin
The Knife’s Edge of Ruin: Race, Environmentalism, and Injustice on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, 1969–1970
by Madison W. Cates
Snapshot: Jean Hooper, 2018
by Justin Cook
Mulberry Season Again: And Other Minor Comforts Between Major Upheavals
by Lisa Sorg
Snapshot: Fish Display, 2014
by Richard Knox Robinson
Photo Essay
Quicker than Coal Ash
photographs by Will Warasila
Snapshot: The Land, 2018
by Timothy Ivy
Not Forgotten
Me and Papa and Aldo Leopold
by Anna Zeide
Mason–Dixon Lines
No Ark
poetry by Nickole Brown
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