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. 22 No. 2 - Summer 1994
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Magazine cover with photo of children running off a school bus, reading "Black, White and Borwn: The hard lessons learned 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education"

Black, White and Brown

  • From the Editor

    2

  • Roundup

    3

  • Followup

    8

  • The Great Riverboat Gamble

    Mississippi bets floating casinos will pay off in jobs and taxes, but the wager has also raised rents and highway deaths. By Jenny Labalme

    10

  • "What Tomorrow Can Bring"

    Four decades after Summerton won its historic fight for integration, segregated schools still hold the town back. By Jeff Miller

    16

  • Remembering the Good

    Vanessa Siddle Walker uncovers the forgotten history of segregated black schools. Interview by Eric Bates

    24

  • Along Freedom Road

    How black citizens in one North Carolina county staged a year-long boycott to save their schools. By David Cecelski

    30

  • Beyond Brown

    A new court battle has sparked a massive political struggle to save black colleges and extend educational diversity. By Isaiah Madison

    36

  • "Use What You Have"

    White flight impoverished many public schools, but one community group enriches education by tapping human resources. Interview by Eric Bates

    40

  • Fiction: Holding Ida

    By Darnell Arnoult

    43

  • Voices: Racial Reading

    By Jerry W. Ward Jr.

    47

  • Junebug: Fattening Frogs

    By Junebug Jabbo Jones

    50

  • Freeze!

    The shooting death of Yoshi Hattori in Louisiana carried a clear warning: Don't disobey the man with the gun. By Moira Crone

    52

  • Bluepringt: Community Clinics

    By Jen Schradie

    59

  • Reviews: Visions of Freedom

    By Brenda Stevenson

    61

  • Resources

    63

  • Still the South: Swamps

    By Mary Lee Kerr

    64
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