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The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Playhouse to Powerhouse: Locating Black Power Women and their Movement in the Black Theater by Kerry Goldmann. Prior to the 1960s, most Black theater was barred from mainstream...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens has been reviewed in CAA Reviews. “Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture joins two trends broadening art history’s scope: exposing racial...
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 American History. "Rather than focusing on the events of the massacre itself, a retaliation against Black agricultural...
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 the Arkansas Historical Association. Edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White, Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens has won the 2023 SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication. The award is given for outstanding...
Daniel Caruth interviewed Rachel Stephens, author of Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture, on a recent episode of KUAF's program Ozarks at Large. You can listen to the interview at KAUF.com. In the decades leading up to the Civil...
Colin Woodward has reviewed American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching in the latest issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “Lancaster’s book … is a timely and important work. [It] reveals a mastery of the source material, expertly blending primary and...
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 reviewed in the August 2023 issue of the Journal of Southern History. “Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta contributes...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens, is now available! In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence,...
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 Southern History. “Terry Anne Scott’s Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas is a...
