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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott has been reviewed in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. “In her new and compelling study of racial violence in Texas, Terry Anne Scott presents a dramatic...
Daily Yonder, a digital magazine that provides news, commentary, and analysis about and for rural America, has published an interview with Dr. Yulonda Eadie Sano and Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch about Rural Black Studies, their new series with the University of Arkansas...
Guy Lancaster's American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching has been reviewed in The Journal of Southern History. “Combining history, sociology, philosophy, and cognitive science, Guy Lancaster’s concise and thought-provoking American Atrocity: The Types of...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens. In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual...
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 his books, King of the Court about NBA legend Bill Russell, Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the...
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 now available. In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate Little Rock Central High School approached,...
Imagining a new field of discourse is at the heart of Rural Black Studies, a new series from the University of Arkansas Press edited by Cherisse Jones-Branch and Yulonda Eadie Sano. Scholars have long written about African Americans who left the rural...
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 spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire...
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 American Atrocity, [Lancaster] links the history of anti-Black mob violence in Arkansas to an analysis of theoretical...
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 Award. The Ottis Lock Endowment Awards are awarded by the East Texas Historical Association annually in the Fall for...
