Southern Exposure is an award-winning print journal and magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation and won several awards, including a National Magazine Award and two George Polk Awards, for its writing and investigative reporting on a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues in the South.

Vol. 12 No. 5 - September/October 1984
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Magazine cover with photo of women walking down dirt road carrying tobacco leaves on their heads; photo of Lorraine Hansberry

The Smoke Ring: Politics and Tobacco in the Third World

  • Letters from Our Readers

    2

  • Readers Corner

    Elizabeth M. Makowski

    3

  • Southern News Roundup

    4

  • Facing South

    Connie Toops

    11

  • Resources

    12

  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    13

  • A Tradition of Freedom

    William Loren Katz

    16

  • The Buck Williams Tennessee Memorial Association

    Lorraine Hansberry

    28

  • From These Roots

    Robert Nemiroff

    32

  • The Smoke Ring

    Peter Taylor

    37

  • The China Connection

    49

  • East Texas Red, Then and Now

    Art Thieme

    50

  • Reviews

    58

  • Bulletin Board of the South

    63

  • Voices from the Past

    Richey Alexander

    64
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