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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787254403321

Titolo

Race and ethnicity in Arkansas : new perspectives / / edited by John A. Kirk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, Arkansas : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-61075-548-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

976.700496/073

Soggetti

Race

Racism - Arkansas

Ethnicity - Arkansas

Arkansas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From slavery to freedom : new perspectives on the African American experience in Arkansas. Black and white on slavery's frontier : the slave experience in Arkansas / Kelly Houston Jones -- Race and the struggle for freedom : African American Arkansans after emancipation / Carl H. Moneyhon -- "Send forth more laborers into the vineyard" : understanding the African American exodus to Arkansas / Story Matkin-Rawn -- New perspectives on white violence. Sundown towns : racial cleansing in the Arkansas delta / Guy Lancaster -- Race, history, and memory in Harrison, Arkansas : an Ozarks town reckons with its past / Jacqueline Froelich -- The twenty-one deaths caused by the 1959 fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School : an isolated case of "neglect" or an instance of racial violence? / Grif Stockley -- New perspectives on African American activism. Empowering families and communities : African American home demonstration agents in Arkansas, 1913-1965 / Cherrise Jones-Branch -- It should be more than just a simple shout : the life of Elias Camp ("E.C.") Morris / Calvin White -- Civil rights inactivism : Richard Nathaniel Hogan and the "enemies of righteousness" / Barclay Key -- From Braceros and refugees to citizens : new perspectives on the Latina/o and Asian experience in Arkansas. The Bracero program : Mexican workers in the Arkansas Delta, 1948-1964 / Julie M. Weise -- A tenuous welcome for



Latinas/os and Asians : states' rights discourse in late twentieth-century Arkansas / Perla M. Guerrero -- Soy el jefe : how Hispanic entrepreneurs are changing the economic landscape of northeast Arkansas / Melany Bowman.

Sommario/riassunto

<div>John A. Kirk is George W. Donaghey Professor and chair of the History Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the author or editor of several books, including <i>Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement</i> and <i>Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas</i>.</div>