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. 12 No. 3 - May/June 1984
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Magazine cover featuring painting of Black men in prison garb working on what appears to be a prison farm

Painting South: 1564-1980

  • Letters to the Editor

    2

  • Readers Corner

    Pare Lorentz

    3

  • Southern News Roundup

    6

  • Facing South

    Frank Roberts

    13

  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    Stephen Vetter

    14

  • Resources

    17

  • Storytelling

    Jo Carson

    18

  • Too Sick to Work, Too Young to Die

    Barbara Ellen Smith

    19

  • Determined to Build a Community

    Ann Morris

    30

  • Beyond the White Columns

    Peter Wood

    38

  • Retrieval Art in the South

    Susan Hankla

    44

  • Boone, North Carolina

    Joseph Bruchac

    47

  • Ceremony for Minneconjoux

    Brenda Marie Osbey

    48

  • Ernest Wright: "People's Champion"

    Keith Weldon Medley

    52

  • Reviews

    56

  • Bulletin Board of the South

    63

  • Voices from the Past

    Belle Kearney

    64
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