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In the new Southern Cultures Global South Issue (with free DVD)

• Big Tobacco takes the South to Shanghai over a century ago
• Rural counties and small Southern towns cope with dramatic economic change in an era of globalization
• Southerners wrestle with their feelings about American identity and new immigration
• Business leadership forges change as the South goes global
• Barbecue smuggles its way into the region long before the first Confederate map
• A chef stocks his kitchen with immigrants to make Southern specialities
• There's one sport in town that's for old locals and Latinos--cockfighting
• Dekalb Farmers Market internationalizes Atlanta with exotic cuisine form around the world
• New people journey to a new South: an overview of Southern migration .

The issue's free DVD, Neighborhood Voices, offers a bilingual chronicle of one Southern city and the stirring account of the residents who live in our rapidly evolving Global South.

Moments. Memories. Images. Snapshots.

The Photography Issue features

• William R. Ferris’s historic interview withWalker Evans
• Thomas Neff's amazing pictures of Katrina's aftermath
• Bruce Jackson's staggering portraits of Death Row in Texas
• Sam Vance Jr.'s striking chronicle of the small-town South
• Berkley Hudson's exploration of O. N. Pruitt's astonishing pictures
• a special essay by Tom Rankin about Southern photography and more.
• Click here to read the table of contents.