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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirk, John A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Racism--Arkansas.

Racism.

Ethnicity--Arkansas.

Ethnicity.

Arkansas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, Arkansas : University of Arkansas Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<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>

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610755481

1610755480

OCLC:

896824672