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. 15 No. 2 - Summer 1987
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Worth Fighting For

  • Southern News Roundup

    2

  • My Turn: Views and News

    Victor McTeer on Super Tuesday and Jesse Jackson

    7

  • Resources

    9

  • Where the Hawks Roost

    An Institute for Southern Studies analysis of how Southerners in Congress vote on military and foreign policy issues

    11

  • Environmental Politics: Lessons from the Grassroots

    by Bob Hall

    16

  • "Would You Let Us Starve to Death"

    Letters from textile workers in search of a genuine New Deal

    29

  • The South's Jumbo Banks: Crossing State Lines

    A Special Report by Tom Schlesinger

    33

  • "Never Turn Back": The Movement in Greenwood, Mississippi

    interview with Sam Block by Joe Sinsheimer

    37

  • Can You See Our Faces: Images of Atlanta's Homeless

    photographs from the Taskforce on the Homeless

    51

  • Gentility

    a short story by Hartmut

    56

  • Movies That Will Move You

    A guide to films and videos by Marieke Tax and Richard Ward

    58

  • Books

    John Egerton experiences the essence of Southern food

    60

  • New Books on the South

    62

  • Voices from the Past

    Arkansas, 1951: A "New Spirit" for Investing in Education

    64
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