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. 27 No. 2 - Summer 1999
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Southern Exposure issue that reads No Easy Journey, with a picture of several people standing next to a truck

No Easy Journey: New Immigrants in the South

  • From the Editor

    2

  • Letters: Confederates in the Attic

    3

  • Remembrance: Virginia Durr, 1904-1999

    4

  • Around the Institute

    6

  • Southern News Roundup

    9

  • Followup: Has Welfare Reform Worked?

    By Keith Ernst

    16

  • Birth of a Mestizo Nation

    Latinos are becoming new Southerners, and creating a new South. By Marcos McPeek Villatoro

    18

  • Newcomers by Numbers

    Record-breaking numbers of immigrants are calling the South home. By Leah Van Wey

    21

  • Fotos del Pueblo

    To immigrants, the camera "can be both friend and enemy." Photo essay by Susan Simone

    24

  • Foreigner, Go Home!

    Newcomers feel the bite of the anti-immigrant crackdown. By Marsha Barber

    28

  • This Land is Whose Land?

    Emma Lazarus is probably turning in her grave. By Keith Ernst

    29

  • Born in the U.S.A.

    Recent policy reforms may have created a public health tragedy. By Maureen Zent

    34

  • Whiting Out History

    How a nation of immigrants became anti-immigrant. By Grace Elizabeth Hale

    35

  • Armed and Dangerous

    The INS turns the South into occupied territory. By Chris Kromm

    39

  • Uprooting Injustice

    Has farmwork changed since the "Harvest of Shame?" By Sandy Smith-Nonini

    40

  • "A Union is the Only Way"

    The Farm Labor Organizing Committee seeks to bring justice to the fields. By Sandy Smith-Nonini

    46

  • Beyond "Divide and Rule" Roundtable

    African-American and Latino activists talk about tensions, the media, and joining forces to face "the real issues."

    53

  • Fiction: Not This Virginia

    By Terry Bisson

    58

  • Fiction: Village Cry

    By Glenis Redmond Sherer

    58

  • Reviews of Southern Media

    63

  • Still the South: Red Tide

    By Mary Lee Kerr

    70
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