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. 11 No. 2 - March/April 1983
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Neighbors

  • Readers Corner

    Emma and the MX, by Bob Brinkmeyer

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  • Letters from our Readers

    2

  • Southern News Roundup

    Mississippi prison strike; alternative fund awards; rural schools; and more

    4

  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    Basque Cooperatives, Video Villainy

    10

  • Facing South

    Building Boats for the Working People, by Richard Lebovitz

    12

  • Resources

    Statistics on children; pregnant miners handbook; peace resources; self-help housing

    13

  • Reviews

    Georgia photographs, feminist anthology, and more

    68

  • Voices from the Past

    James McBride Dabbs: Southern Liberal, by John Egerton

    72

  • Grass and Gravel

    An artist transcends physical handicaps to pursue his chosen work, by David A. Sampson

    14

  • A Cloud on the Horizon

    Rural citizens fight against Agent White, by Dee Reid

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  • The Boomer Chronicles

    A 1,900-mile canoe trip raises $ 11,600 for Tennessee organizing, by Charles Winfrey

    33

  • To Do What’s Right

    Kentucky health clinic founder wins the 1982 Wonder Woman Award, by Dorothy Hall Peddle

    39

  • Howard Be Thy Name

    Poetry, by Charles Ghigna

    44

  • An Act of Faith

    A Texas bishop tells why he fights against the arms race, by Sam Totten and Martha Wescoat Totten

    46

  • The Incarceration of Annie

    a play for one woman, by Rebecca Ranson

    51

  • It Seems to Help Me Bear It

    Support networks among nineteenth century women, by Margaret Bolsterli

    58

  • Digging Black History

    Archaeology students uncover a hidden past, and

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  • For Peat’s Sake

    with modern overtones, by Peter Wood

    62
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