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Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883-1924 - Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality (Hardcover)
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Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883-1924 - Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality (Hardcover)
Series: New Studies in Southern History
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Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state
already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence,
including lynchings, duels, and feuds. However, the years following
Reconstruction witnessed the creation of new forms of mob violence.
All across the state, gangs of whites sought to drive African
Americans from their homes, their jobs, and their positions of
authority, creating communities shamelessly advertised as "100%
white." This happened not only in the highland regions, the Ozarks
and the Ouachitas, where the expulsion of African Americans created
so-called "sundown towns," but it also occurred in the low-lying
Delta lands of eastern Arkansas, where cotton was king and where
masked mobs of landless "whitecappers" and "nightriders" regularly
dealt terror and murder to black sharecroppers. Racial Cleansing in
Arkansas, 1883-1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality by Guy
Lancaster is the first book to examine the phenomenon of racial
cleansing within the context of one particular state, illustrating
how violence relates to geography and economic development.
Lancaster analyzes the wholesale expulsion of African Americans and
the emergence of "sundown towns" together with a survey of more
limited deportations, including those with blatant political goals
as well as vigilante violence. The book has broader implications
not only for the study of Southern and American history but also
for a deeper understanding of ethnic and racial conflict, local
politics, and labor history
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