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. 14 No. 2 - March/April 1986
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Water Politics

  • Readers Corner

    Watching a garden grow from death row, by M. E. Marrs

    2

  • Southern News Roundup

    Louisiana refugee detention center, Georgia pardons Leo Frank, old segregationists fade away, and more

    4

  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    Federal government forces Arizona Navajo to leave homelands

    10

  • Facing South

    Farm to Factory: "I got Sunday off," by Ilene Cornwell

    12

  • Resources

    The brothers from other planets, peaceful world adventures, and more

    14

  • Water Politics

    Fighting corporations which threaten our water

    15

  • Testing the Waters

    How worried city water drinkers decided to check the purity themselves

    17

  • "Water—You Can Drink It With a Fork!"

    Appalachian coal mining gums up mountain water, by John Gaventa and Linda Selfridge with an introduction by Chris Mayfield

    21

  • The Peat Wars

    Fishers and environmentalists stopped a peat strip-mining scheme that would have damaged shellfish beds, by Robin Epstein

    27

  • East Texas Black Life

    photography by Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss

    39

  • A Poem for Langston Hughes

    by Lenard D. Moore

    43

  • "We're Becoming the Mayors"

    Harvey Gantt led a 1960 lunch counter sit-in and now he's mayor of Charlotte, an interview by Lynn Haessly

    44

  • Back Road Into Town

    fiction by Eddie Harris

    52

  • Reviews

    Uppity women, traditional music of the future

    56

  • Bulletin Board of the South

    63

  • Voices of the Past

    Dixie students take a stand

    64
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