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Front Porch

Front Porch New Year’s Eve noise demonstration at Durham County Detention Facility, Durham, North Carolina, December 2020. Photographs by Jade Wilson. Fall 2021 // The Abolitionist South • 1 Outside view of Wake County Detention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina. N THIS ISSUE of Southern Cultures, we examine the abolitionist South. This phrase pulls us back to the region’s traumatic and violent history of slavery and Emancip - a tion—brought to life most recently in Barry Jenkins’s devastating television adaptation Iof Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel The U , nderground Railroad. But it also anchors us in a radical present where modern abolitionists protest community harm in twenty-first-century racist police brutality, prisons, surveillance, criminalization, and law enforcement, all of which are disproportionately experienced by Black Americans, low-income communities, and women. The essays, photography, and poetry in this issue address core aspects of southern abolition and how it supports resistance, protest, activism, community safety, mutual aid, joy, and relationship building. Our guest editors are historians T. Dionne Bailey and Garrett Felber, whose important work examines Black radicalism and the carceral state in the American South. This issue is inspired by the groundbreaking 2019 Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration conference at the University of Mississippi, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Front Porch

Ferris, Marcie Cohen
Southern Cultures , Volume 27 (3) – Nov 6, 2021
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New Year’s Eve noise demonstration at Durham County Detention Facility, Durham, North Carolina, December 2020. Photographs by Jade Wilson. Fall 2021 // The Abolitionist South • 1 Outside view of Wake County Detention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina. N THIS ISSUE of Southern Cultures, we examine the abolitionist South. This phrase pulls us back to the region’s traumatic and violent history of slavery and Emancip - a tion—brought to life most recently in Barry Jenkins’s devastating television adaptation Iof Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel The U , nderground Railroad. But it also anchors us in a radical present where modern abolitionists protest community harm in twenty-first-century racist police brutality, prisons, surveillance, criminalization, and law enforcement, all of which are disproportionately experienced by Black Americans, low-income communities, and women. The essays, photography, and poetry in this issue address core aspects of southern abolition and how it supports resistance, protest, activism, community safety, mutual aid, joy, and relationship building. Our guest editors are historians T. Dionne Bailey and Garrett Felber, whose important work examines Black radicalism and the carceral state in the American South. This issue is inspired by the groundbreaking 2019 Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration conference at the University of Mississippi,

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