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. 14 No. 1 - January/February 1986
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The Chords That Bind

  • Letters From Our Readers

    Nuclear workers

    2

  • Readers Corner

    Another World by Harold A. Mayo

    3

  • Southern News Roundup

    Blacks in Southern Legislatures, Alabama steel workers lose buy-out bid, Klan murder suspected, and more

    4

  • Facing South

    Ancient Wisdom, by Ilene J. Cornwell

    11

  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    Interview with Nicaraguan Minister of Education Eduardo Baez, by E. J. Smith

    12

  • The Chords That Bind

    Traditional Music in the South, introduction by Si Kahn

    15

  • Footprints: John Handcox—Songwriter

    "There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land," by Marjorie Miller with an introduction by Pete Seeger

    17

  • Folk Visions and Voices

    How Anne Romaine and Bernice Reagon brought politics and Southern music together, by Patricia Hall

    23

  • Mine Own

    Appalachian mountain music from 1890-1935, by Bascom Lamar Lundsford with an introduction by Loyal Jones

    29

  • Photo Essay

    From his travels in North and Central America, photos by Russell Honicker

    38

  • You Don't Know Marta

    A lyrical short story, by Carmen Taffolla

    42

  • Food Festivals

    Eating your way around the South, by Alice Geffen and Carole Berglie

    44

  • Cold Gap

    A poem, by Larry Wilson

    50

  • Vanquished But Not Convinced

    Worker militancy and vigilante violence in Tampa, by Robert Ingalls

    51

  • Voices of the Past

    1868: The Cry for Freedom, edited by Lee W. Formwalt

    64
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