Southern Exposure was an award-winning print journal published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation for its writing on a broad range of political and cultural issues in the South, with a special emphasis on investigative journalism and oral history.

On the 50th anniversary of Southern Exposure’s birth, Facing South and the Institute will be publishing a full digital archive of the journal over the course of the year. The initial installment of the archives available in March 2023 includes issues from the magazine’s launch in 1973 through 1981.

Vol. 11 No. 5 - September/October 1983
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The Meaning of the McSurely Case: A Seventeen Year Inquisition

  • Letters From Our Readers

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  • Readers Corner

    The girl in the madman’s march, by Imani Taylor

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  • Southern News Roundup

    Coors floods South; Oak Ridge poisons; marijuana myths; success against utilities; Japanese trucks made-in-USA; is slavery debatable?

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  • Facing South

    Sharon Winters: Fiddling Her Way to the Top, by Nancy Callahan

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  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    Progressive tax revolt, East German peace movement

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  • Resources

    Truth in textbooks, songs of struggle, grass roots fundraising

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  • Reviews

    The Way We Lived, Exit 13, The Selling of the South, The Crescent Review

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  • Voices From the Past

    Freedom or Affluence, by Frances Ellen Watkins

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  • American Inquisition Part I

    Part I: The Trial of Alan and Margaret McSurely, by Charles Young

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  • American Inquisition

    Part II: Political Repression in the 1960s, by Anne Braden

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  • Shalom Y’all

    The Jewish Community of Memphis, by Rachelle Saltzman

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  • The Correct Thing

    Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Palmer Institute, by Tera Hunter

    37

  • Dew

    Poetry, by Freedom Justina Nubee

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  • Recycling and Cashing In

    Poetry, by Sheryl L. Nelms

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  • Ruth in the Silver River

    Fiction, by Cheryl Hiers

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  • Patchwork

    Oral histories of grandmothers, by Dee Gilbert

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  • Southern Comic

    Jerry Clower and the country comic tradition, by Tom Chaffin

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