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. 21 No. 4 - Winter 1993
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Magazine cover with photo of young Black boy at a protest holding a hand-lettered sign that reads "Clean should be more than a dream"

Clean Dreams

  • From the Editor

    2

  • Roundup

    3

  • Clean Dream Section Introduction

    By Isaiah Madison and Mary Lee Kerr

    7

  • From Conquistadors to Coalitions

    After centuries of environmental racism, people of color are forging a new movement for environmental justice. By Mary Lee Kerr and Charles Lee

    8

  • Crossing the Line

    Even before NAFTA, corporations have been exporting dangerous jobs and toxic waste to Mexico. By Rick Held

    20

  • Toxic Struggles

    State-by-state reports on community battles for environmental justice. An Institute Report

    22

  • Tenants and Toxics

    A vision for the environmental justice movement from one of its earliest leaders. By Pat Bryant

    27

  • "To Forge a Movement"

    How can we build a broad movement for environmental justice? Seventeen grassroots organizers share their ideas and experiences. Interview by Isaiah Madison

    30

  • Voices: Big Bear John

    As told to Barbara Wickersham

    35

  • Junebug: Looking for Mudbone

    By Junebug Jabbo Jones

    36

  • Fiction: Diseases of Mystics

    By Sharon Claybough

    38

  • Race and Risk

    How private dealing over public housing condemned a West Dallas neighborhood to segregation and lead poisoning. By Craig Flournooy and Randy Lee Loftis

    44

  • Death of a Nursery

    Thousands of Florida farmeres watched their crops wither and die. Was a Du Pont fungicide to blame? By William R. Levesque

    47

  • The Changing Lowcountry

    Private resorts erode the South Carolina coast—while public dollars pay the insurance. By Frank Heflin

    49

  • No Answers for Newtown

    Environmental racism is killing black residents and dividing a Georgia community. By Rick Lavender

    51

  • Separate Justice

    The war on drugs has rolled back the clock in Virginia courts, reversing decades of progress toward racial equality. By Bob Gibson

    54

  • The Burden of Waste

    Students in New Orleans public schools suffer as board members put politics above learning. By Chris Adams

    57

  • Reviews: Organizing Memphis

    By Elizabeth Sharpe

    62
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