For more than 30 years Southern Cultures (UNC Press) has published the work of acclaimed authors & distinguished photographers on all things southern.
Chapel Hill, NC
Joined September 2010
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Don't miss your chance to submit to this @SCquarterly issue. @Amammartinez is the perfect guest editor for it - it's gonna be amazing.
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y’all still have time to get your essays, photos, & other pieces of art in for the Hip Hop South issue.
we wasn’t quiet 30 years ago & we aint quiet now. we making noise with this one!!
Submit now for the Hip-Hop South issue, guest ed by Corey J Miles. "The hip-hop South waits for no one. André '3000' Benjamin didn’t wait for acceptance when he declared 'the South got something to say,' & for the 30 yrs since...the region has spoken." southerncultures.org/cfp-hip…
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On this day in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, weakening a crucial civil rights law. Read @Ben_Barber_ article from the Spring 2024 issue of @SCquarterly to learn more about the case and its impact on the South.
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First piece for @oxfordamerican, and I’m honored the folks at Freedom Org let me write about their really important work building food sovereignty on land most U.S.-ian farmers wouldn’t touch—the floodplain. Black folk never get the “best” land, but they do the most with it.
“You can learn a lot about a community from their yard compost.”
— In a new essay for #OnJubilee, @daniellepurifoy explores two historically Black neighborhoods that are reviving foodways and building resilience in the face of environmental challenges: oxfordamerican.org/on-jubile…
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CFP: In the South we snap our fingers. We trap. We got crunk in our system. We ride and swerve. Submit now for the Hip-Hop South issue with Southern Cultures. We seek work that willingly grapples with the South as a site of creative resistance. southerncultures.org/cfp-hip…
ALT André 3000 and Big Boy from Outkast perform at the Marcus Amphitheatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1995. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images).
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You can now read my short story "Blood Harmony" in full at @SCquarterly , from the print Gothic South issue, w/Kristine Potter's photographs, including this one, 'Balladeer.'
Originally published in Kristine's monograph Dark Waters (@aperturefnd) southerncultures.org/article…
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Today is the launch day of the audiobook of @profblmkelley new book BLACK FOLK: THE ROOTS OF THE BLACK WORKING CLASS, read by Anika Noni Rose
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I was invited by
@SCquarterly
to write an introduction to the Fall Snapshot:Climate issue, based on my experience bridging #climatescience and policy. The issue is out and you can check out all of the amazing art featured in the issue! southerncultures.org/article…
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Hope to see you at the Snapshot: Climate opening tonight at the Love House! 5-7pm. Free & open to all.
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Tonight! Join @SCquarterly for Snapshot: Climate Exhibition, Thursday, Sept. 7. Drop by from 5-7 pm for the exhibition opening at Love House @UNCSouth on the @UNC campus.
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See y'all Thursday, SEPT 7, 5–7 PM for📸 Snapshot: Climate Exhibition 📸 at @UNCSouth. 60+ photographs and reflections from artists, activists, photojournalists, and scientists providing a “snapshot” at climate impacts across the South. southerncultures.org/snapsho…
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The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –
I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.
Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.
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EVERYONE IS WELCOME
The AAC will be hosting a webinar today at 5:15pm to help reflect & process yesterday's tragic events. Registration required. We ask UNC affiliates to please use your UNC email to help us review registrations swiftly.
Registration: go.unc.edu/AAC829
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Counseling resources will be available for students at a variety of locations today from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.: go.unc.edu/Gp2a8
ALT A photo of the Old Well at sunrise.
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“The South is everywhere Black folks are.” —-@daniellepurifoy the brilliant guest editor of the Black Geographies issue of @SCquarterly at our welcome back event here at @UNCSouth
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In an article published in @SCquarterly's special issue on Black geographies, Prof. Darien Alexander Williams @nigreaux explores how political cartoons reoriented Black American culture. bit.ly/3QPZjKL
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Grateful for the opportunity to reflect on my experience teaching Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and her intricate research process for @SCquarterly. Many thanks to @daniellepurifoy for editing this beautiful issue.
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