Good Times and Growing Pains

Carroll Dale Short · Robert Hamburger · Lawrence Goodwyn · Steve Hofflus · Louie Crew · Malcolm Jones · David Bowman · Wendy Watriss · Jack Boozer · Steven Ward · Stephen March · Garland Strother · Manning Marable

The Institute for Southern Studies

About this ebook

This issue, which marks the beginning of our fifth year, combines a number of articles about the good times and growing pains of a South reaching national maturity. It seems appropriate for us to answer, at this time, some of our readers' questions about who we re and what Southern Exposure represents.

Early observers thought we'd never make it this far with a regional journal so critical of the powers that be and so preoccupied with the lesser known people, with the struggles and heritage of a culture considered bankrupt by sophisticated America. But, like the South, we have attained a new stability, partly from the spin-off of the media search for Jimmy Carter's South (they have yet to find it) and partly from our appeal to the same hunger for connections to a past, a place, a people, that made Roots a meaningful event for so many.