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. 20 No. 4 - Winter 1992
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Magazine cover with photo of man with camera, reading "Fast Forward"

Fast Forward

  • Dateline: The South

    Compiled by Hannah Bynum

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  • Southern News Roundup

    Compiled by Eric Bates

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  • Fast Forward

    Camcorders? Laser printers? VCRs? Seventeen years after we first focused on the media , the picture has changed.

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  • Who Owns the Media?

    Corporate chains, that's who. A full listing of every Southern newspaper and TV station under group control. By Jim Lee and Eric Bates.

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  • Changing Channels

    People of color pushed to buy new TV and radio stations in the 1980s. So why are the media still so white? By Brigette Rouson.

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  • Bright Lights, Low Wages

    More and more films are being shot in the South, taking advantage of cheap labor and anti-union laws. By Mike Nielsen and Eric Bates.

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  • Rebirth of a Nation

    Three recent films resist the Southern stereotypes of D. W. Griffith, depicting a technicolor region of black, brown, and g(r)ay. By Mark A. Reid.

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  • The Lost Colony Film

    How several Southern communities used the emerging medium of film to tell their own story—without any help from Hollywood. By Tom Whiteside.

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  • Just Do It

    From Louisiana to Kentucky, profiles of Southerners who have taken the media into their own hands.

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  • Best of the Press

    Introduction

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  • Abuse of Authority

    Texas ranks first in police brutality. But what happens when citizens complain about officers who break the law? By Lorraine Adams and Dan Malone.

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  • Justice Denied

    With family violence on the rise in West Virginia, many battered women find they are on their own. By Jeanne Kennedy.

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  • Kids Behind Bars

    South Carolina has the nation's most overcrowded juvenile jails, but community-based programs offer hope. By Howard Buskirk and Melinda Gladfelter.

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  • Decade of Neglect

    Poverty, power, and politics in an All-American City. By Mike Hudson and Douglas Pardue.

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  • Two Shades of Green

    Money and trees are at the center of a struggle over the chip mill industry. By Pam Sohn.

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  • Black on Hilton Head

    As whites develop resorts on a South Carolina island, black residents struggle to save their land and heritage. By Frank Morris.

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  • Fiction: New Snow

    By Darnell Arnoult

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  • Still the South: Hurricanes

    By Mary Lee Kerr

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