Southern Cultures: Backward/Forward Volume 25, Number 1 Spring 2019 Issue

This issue of Southern Cultures celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal’s publication with a special issue titled Backward/Forward. The issue features contributions by Charles Reagan Wilson, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Kevin Kline, William Thomas Okie, Teresa Parker Farris, Lauren Pilcher, Gene Nichol, David Wharton, Regina N. Bradley, and Rajiv Mohabir. This is a single issue. For a subscription to Southern Cultures please visit www.uncpress.org/journals/southern-cultures/.

Harry L. Watson is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Marcie Cohen Ferris is professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a former president of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and general editor of the 24-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.