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. 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 Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Linda Rocawich

    20

  • Political Change Among the Magnolias?

    Robert McElvaine

    24

  • 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

  • Reflections on a Reunion

    Ken Goodrich

    52

  • Reviews

    58

  • Bulletin Board of the South

    63

  • Voices from the Past

    Richey Alexander

    64
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