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. 12 No. 3 - May/June 1984

Magazine cover featuring painting of Black men in prison garb working on what appears to be a prison farm

Painting South: 1564-1980

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