Call for Papers: Submission Deadline: June 1, 2017

What is crisis without opportunity? The psychic life of this special issue signifies upon intellectual inquiry during the Harlem Renaissance as the twin pillars of that black cultural work are reflected in the journals, Crisis (1910) and Opportunity (1923). This special issue of south hopes to examine the fraught contemporary landscape of “southern” politics, activism, and culture. Where there is crisis, there is also opportunity.

Potential essayists are asked to submit, but not limited to reflections on the following:

• o. anti-LGBTQIA civil rights bills passing in Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and North Carolina, to name a few

• o. the 2016 Presidential election and its rhetorics

• o. grassroots and community activisms across a spectrum of identities, issues, and intellectual landscapes

We invite considerations of the long-term impact of

• o. #blacklivesmatter/#sayhername

• o. campus carry

• o. engagement with the greater Arab world in the south

• o. immigration and/or Latinx communities

• o. activism against campus rape culture

• o. struggles for indigenous sovereignty (DAPL) and southern cultures/communities.

We seek essays of no more than 10–12 pages—ones that engage a constellation of events troubling the south and beyond. Send us your reports and manifestos, new archives and speculations.

For more information, please visit our website, http://southjournal.org. Full essay submissions are due June 1, 2017. Please note that we have moved to a new on-line submission platform: https://south.submittable.com/submit.