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. 23 No. 2 - Summer 1995
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Magazine cover with photo of cabin in forest and pasture, text reads "Eminent Domain"

Eminent Domain

  • From the Editor

    2

  • Letters

    3

  • Roundup

    4

  • Followup: More Tales from the Trough

    11

  • Sterilization Survivors Speak Out

    Eugenics survivor show for whom the Bell Curve tolls. By Mary Bishop

    12

  • Eminent Domain Carves up a New South

    By Margaret Lynn Brown

    18

  • Drawing the Lines in West Virginia

    The balance of power lines is being drawn in rural Appalachia. By Charlotte Pritt

    19

  • Irrational NIMBYs vs. the Technocrats

    How to fight when they come for your land. By Jim McNeely

    20

  • Re-Creation of the Mountains

    The Smoky Mountains were farmland until the tourists came. By Margaret Lynn Brown

    25

  • Damming the Valley

    With its promise of cheap electricity, the TVA casts a long shadow. By Wayne Moore

    30

  • Portrait of Watauga

    A community had to move for the TVA. By Jeff Whetstone

    32

  • The Home Front's Dispossessed

    Black residents of the North Carolina Coast gave their homes to the war effort. By David Cecelski

    37

  • A New Take on Takings

    Developers and other property owners are donning sheep's clothing to gut environmental laws. By Ron Nixon

    42

  • Resources

    47

  • Fiction: Water

    By Janet Hearne

    48

  • Junebug: Bo Willie Redd and Princess Geraldine II

    By Junebug Jabbo Jones

    52

  • Blueprint: Slow Burn in Louisiana

    By Sara Shipley

    55

  • Voices: The Graduates

    By Berthrone L X Mock and Jo Dale Mistilis

    58

  • Review: Life in Two Worlds

    By Ashley Byrd

    61

  • Review: More Personal Journeys

    By Kevin O'Kelly

    63

  • Still in the South: Air Conditioning

    By Raymond Arsenault

    64
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