Playhouse to Powerhouse: Locating Black Power Women and their Movement in the Black Theatre by Kerry Goldmann is now available. The rise of Black...
African American Studies
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Playhouse to Powerhouse
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Playhouse to Powerhouse: Locating Black Power Women and their...
Hidden in Plain Sight Reviewed in CAA Reviews
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens has been reviewed in CAA Reviews. “Hidden in Plain...
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta Reviewed in Journal of American History
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre has been reviewed by Rebecca Hill in the Journal of...
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta Wins the John William Graves Book Award
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre has won the 2024 John William Graves Book Award from...
Rachel Stephens Wins the 2023 SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens...
Rachel Stephens on Ozarks at Large
Daniel Caruth interviewed Rachel Stephens, author of Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture, on a recent episode...
American Atrocity Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Colin Woodward has reviewed American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching in the latest issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly....
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre, edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White, has been...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture is Now Available
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens, is now available! In the decades leading up to the...
Lynching and Leisure Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott has been reviewed by Simon Balto in The Journal of...
Lynching and Leisure Reviewed in Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott has been reviewed in the Southwestern Historical...
Daily Yonder Talks Rural Black Studies with Cherisse Jones-Branch and Yulonda Eadie Sano
Daily Yonder, a digital magazine that provides news, commentary, and analysis about and for rural America, has published an interview with Dr....
Matthew E. Stanley Reviews American Atrocity in The Journal of Southern History
Guy Lancaster's American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching has been reviewed in The Journal of Southern History. “Combining history,...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American...
WYPL Book Talk: Aram Goudsouzian
Aram Goudsouzian is a professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Memphis. He’s appeared on Book Talk before to discuss...
Now Available: Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City by Jay Jennings, is...
#NextUP in Publishing: Rural Black Studies
Imagining a new field of discourse is at the heart of Rural Black Studies, a new series from the University of Arkansas Press edited...
Guy Lancaster talks about American Atrocity on the New Books Network
Brandon T. Jett has interviewed Guy Lancaster on the New Books Network podcast. Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the...
American Atrocity Reviewed in Arkansas Review
American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster, has been reviewed in Arkansas Review by Brent M. S. Campney. “In his recent...
Lynching and Leisure Wins Ottis Lock Award
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott has won the 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment Best Book...