Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: From Slavery to Freedom—New Perspectives on the African American Experience in Arkansas
Chapter 1: Black and White on Slavery’s Frontier
Chapter 2: Race and the Struggle for Freedom
Chapter 3: “Send Forth More Laborers into the Vineyard”
Part II: New Perspectives on White Violence
Chapter 4: Sundown Towns
Chapter 5: Race, History, and Memory in Harrison, Arkansas
Chapter 6: The Twenty-One Deaths Caused by the 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School
Part III: New Perspectives on African American Activism
Chapter 7: Empowering Families and Communities
Chapter 8: It Should Be More Than Just a Simple Shout
Chapter 9: Civil Rights Inactivism
Part IV: From Braceros and Refugees to Citizens—New Perspectives on the Latina/o and Asian Experience in Arkansas
Chapter 10: The Bracero Program
Chapter 11: A Tenuous Welcome for Latinas/os and Asians
Chapter 12: Soy el Jefe
Notes
Contributors
Index