First Amendment studies in Arkansas : the Richard S. Arnold prize essays / edited by Stephen A. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Stephen A., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--1st Amendment.

United States.

Freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech--United States.

Freedom of speech--Arkansas.

Arkansas.

Physical Description:

xvii, 313 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2016.

Summary:

First Amendment Studies in Arkansas brings together fourteen essays, each selected as the winner of the Richard S. Arnold Prize in First Amendment Studies, an endowed find established in 1999 to encourage University of Arkansas graduate students in communication and the liberal arts to explore and examine questions about freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The work of these young scholars draws on public documents as well as oral-History interviews to demonstrate the dynamics of democratic dissent on college campuses, in public school, in churches, on the streets, on the farms, on the hustings, and in the legislative chambers and courtrooms of Arkansas. Student protest arrests on the campuses of Southern State College in Magnolia and Henderson State College in the 1960s are covered, as are more recent objections to the funding of a gay and lesbian student organization at the University or Arkansas. Another essay explores how the right to criticize public employees became conflated with trademark infringement when the University of Arkansas, endeavored to the manufacture of a T-shirt that had a critical message about a coach. Barined books, in public schools, censorship of public-television programming, sharecroppers organizing in Poinsett Country, environmental protest of commercial expansion on Lake Ouachita-these are just some of the stories revealing the ways constitutional controversies arise from the actions of citizens and local officials to Arkansas seeking to express their views, and evoking their constitutional right to do so. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Pickings v. Bruce: Students United for Rights and Equality / Paula Killian Agee Agee, Paula Killian 1

Chapter 2 Neal v. Still: Unconstitutional Suppression of Campus Speech / David N.Morris N.Morris, David 23

Chapter 3 Gay and Lesbian Students Association v. Gohn: Content Discrimination in Funding / Caroline M. Heintzman Heintzman, Caroline M. 41

Chapter 4 Curtailing Criticism of Public Figures through Trademark and Branding / Josh Bertaccini Bertaccini, Josh 59

Chapter 5 Book Censorship in Fayetteville Public Schools: "The Chocolate Wars" and the "Battle of the Books" / Cortney Smith Smith, Cortney 75

Chapter 6 An Inquiry into Control of Content by the Arkansas Educational Television Network / Allie Taylor Taylor, Allie 97

Chapter 7 Off-Campus Speech and On-Campus Punishment for Student Websites / Andrew Long Long, Andrew 113

Chapter 8 State v. Rodgcrs: The 1935 Anarchy Trial of Ward Rodgers in Poinsett County / Jamie Kern Kern, Jamie 133

Chapter 9 Johnson v. State: God, Country, and Joe Johnson / Rebekah Huss Fox Fox, Rebekah Huss 151

Chapter 10 United States v. Burch: Freedom of Speech in the Ouachita National Forest / David R. Dewberry Dewberry, David R. 179

Chapter 11 Nichols v. Chacon: Rhetoric, Law, and the Gesturing Man / Ryan Gliszinski Gliszinski, Ryan 195

Chapter 12 Rhetorical Continuity: Evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design / Matthew McNair McNair, Matthew 223

Chapter 13 Doc v. Human: The Establishment Clause and Bible Story Time / Afsaneh N. Roe Roe, Afsaneh N. 255

Chapter 14 Pulpit Politics: Politics and Sermons of Robert E. Smith and Ronnie Floyd / Kattrina Baldus Jones Jones, Kattrina Baldus 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682260081

1682260089

OCLC:

946905507