University Of Arkansas Press: 128 books
Aaron Henry of Mississippi
Inside Agitator
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award
When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown...
Brother Bill
President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
“This book is a fascinating analysis of race and class in the age of President Bill Clinton. It provides much-needed clarity in regards to the myth of the ‘First Black President.’ It contributes much to our understanding of the history that informs our present moment!”
—Cornel West
As...
The Rise to Respectability
Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious impact on African Americans and on the history of the South. It explores the ways in which Charles Harrison Mason, the son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a Pentecostal...
Harambee City
The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
BLACK POWER!
It was a phrase that consumed the American imagination in the 1960s and 70s and inspired a new agenda for black freedom. Dynamic and transformational, the black power movement embodied more than media stereotypes of gun-toting, dashiki-wearing black radicals; the movement opened...
DC Sports
The Nation's Capital at Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Washington, DC, is best known for its politics and monuments, but sport has always been an integral part of the city, and Washingtonians are among the country’s most avid sports fans. DC Sports gathers seventeen essays examining the history of sport in the nation’s capital, from turn-of-the-century...
A Hard World
An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2015, Booklist observed, “the arrival of Hauser’s annual boxing review is akin to Christmas morning for fight fans. Nobody knows a sport any better than Hauser knows boxing.”
Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser’s annual collection of articles...
Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action
Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
On November 3, 1979, five protest marchers in Greensboro, North Carolina, were shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. There were no police present, but television crews captured the shootings on video. Despite two criminal trials, none of the killers ever served time for...
Pinson Mounds
Middle Woodland Ceremonialism in the Midsouth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Pinson Mounds: Middle Woodland Ceremonialism in the Midsouth is a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of the largest Middle Woodland mound complex in the Southeast. Located in West Tennessee about ten miles south of Jackson, the Pinson Mounds complex includes at least thirteen mounds, a geometric...
the magic my body becomes
Poems by
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Winner, 2017 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize
In the magic my body becomes, Jess Rizkallah seeks a vernacular for the inescapable middle ground of being Arab American—a space that she finds, at times, to be too Arab for America and too American for her Lebanese elders.
The voice here freely...
The Blueness of the Evening
Selected Poems of Hassan Najmi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This selection of Hassan Najmi’s poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of Morocco’s foremost poets and to a school of modern verse emerging in the Arab World. Scenes of late night cityscapes, lonely interiors, awe-inspiring desert...
by Mohja Kahf
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
“Mohja Kahf ’s Hagar Poems is brilliantly original in its conception, thrillingly artful in its execution. Its range is immense, its spiritual depth is profound, it negotiates its shifts between archaic and the contemporary with utmost skill. There’s lyricism, there’s satire, there’s comedy,...
Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand
The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Most Civil War historians now agree that the guerrilla conflict shaped the entire war in significant ways. Some of these “bushwhackers”—Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Clarke Quantrill, John Singleton Mosby—have become quite infamous. Illiterate Sam Hildebrand, one of Missouri’s most notorious...
Unlocking V. O. Key Jr.
Southern Politics for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Over sixty years ago, political scientist V. O. Key Jr. published his seminal work, Southern Politics in State and Nation. Key’s book defined the field of southern politics and remains one of the most cited and influential works in twentieth-century political science and southern history. In Unlocking...
LA Sports
Play, Games, and Community in the City of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the...