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

• Pubblicazione: Fayetteville, Arkansas : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.700496/073
• Soggetto topico: Race; Racism - Arkansas; Ethnicity - Arkansas
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KirkJohn A.
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: Race and ethnicity in Arkansas
• ISBN: 1-61075-548-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459843503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II