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. 3/4 - Fall/Winter 1995
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Magazine cover with photo of teenage girl in work clothes picking tomatoes; text reads "Targeting Youth: Child Labor, Tobacco and Kids, School Tracking"

Targeting Youth

  • From the Editor

    2

  • Roundup

    3

  • Followup: A Mirror Case

    By Kevin Alexander Gray

    10

  • The Office of Civil Wrongs

    You think your office politics are bad? Check out the Dallas Office of Civil Rights, and you'll stop complaining. By Carol Countryman

    11

  • Targeting Youth

    By Ron Nixon

    15

  • Working in Harm's Way

    Young people are working long hours in dangerous occupations. But little attention is paid to their health and safety. By Ron Nixon

    16

  • Wrong Side of the Track

    Advanced placement and programs for gifted and talented students provide a legal way to continue racial segregation in the schools. By Herb Frazier

    27

  • Learning War

    Southern high schools are suckers for the Army's Junior ROTC programs. By Sam Greene

    33

  • Drawing in the Kids

    A lot of people have given up on this generation of young people. Not tobacco companies. By Christopher Richburg and Terri Boykin

    35

  • An Interview with Marian Wright Edelman

    The founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund gives the Republicans hell. By Terri Boykin

    40

  • Resources

    43

  • Fiction: The Counting Time

    By Anne Marie Yerks

    44

  • Voices: Mi Diario

    By Erasmo Ramirez

    50

  • Junebug: So That's Where Junebug Came From

    By Junebug Jabbo Jones

    54

  • Blueprint: Bringing Water

    By Monica Jones

    56

  • Review: Children's Books and the South

    By Roberta Herrin

    59

  • Unflinching Eyes and Redeye

    62

  • Still the South: Death Penalty

    By Molly Chilson and Wendy Grossman

    64
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