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. 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

  • "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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