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"Primary sources have become an essential component in the teaching of history to undergraduates. They engage students in the process of historical interpretation and analysis and help them understand that facts do not speak for themselves. Rather, students see how historians construct narratives that recreate the past. Most students assume that the pursuit of knowledge is a solitary endeavor; yet historians constantly interact with their peers, building upon previous research and arguing among themselves over the interpretation of sources and their larger meaning. The documentary readers in this series highlight the value of this collaborative creative process and encourage students to participate in it"--

From slavery to freedom : new perspectives on the African American experience in Arkansas. Black and white on slavery's frontier : the slave experience in Arkansas / Kelly Houston Jones -- Race and the struggle for freedom : African American Arkansans after emancipation / Carl H. Moneyhon -- "Send forth more laborers into the vineyard" : understanding the African American exodus to Arkansas / Story Matkin-Rawn -- New perspectives on white violence. Sundown towns : racial cleansing in the Arkansas delta / Guy Lancaster -- Race, history, and memory in Harrison, Arkansas : an Ozarks town reckons with its past / Jacqueline Froelich -- The twenty-one deaths caused by the 1959 fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School : an isolated case of "neglect" or an instance of racial violence? / Grif Stockley -- New perspectives on African American activism. Empowering families and communities : African American home demonstration agents in Arkansas, 1913-1965 / Cherrise Jones-Branch -- It should be more than just a simple shout : the life of Elias Camp ("E.C.") Morris / Calvin White -- Civil rights inactivism : Richard Nathaniel Hogan and the "enemies of righteousness" / Barclay Key -- From Braceros and refugees to citizens : new perspectives on the Latina/o and Asian experience in Arkansas. The Bracero program : Mexican workers in the Arkansas Delta, 1948-1964 / Julie M. Weise -- A tenuous welcome for Latinas/os and Asians : states' rights discourse in late twentieth-century Arkansas / Perla M. Guerrero -- Soy el jefe : how Hispanic entrepreneurs are changing the economic landscape of northeast Arkansas / Melany Bowman.

Combining the latest insights from KIng biographies and movement histories, this book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the relationship between King and the wider civil rights movement. Delivering a fresh perspective on the relationship between 'the man and the movement', Kirk argues that it is the interactionbetween national and local movement concerns that is essential to understanding King's leadership and black activism in the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk examines King's strengths and his limitations, and weighs the role that king played in then movement alongside the contributions of other civil rights organizations and leaders, and local civil rights activists. Suitable for undergraduate courses in 20th century US history.

This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the wayto a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work helps shape new identities.

Northern exposure: the travails of class in a post-industrial landscape -- In search for the working class: the rise of British cultural studies -- Abyss-mal sites: representation and the British working-class -- Speaking for more than itself: answerability and the working-class text -- Working through change (I): oral testimony and the language of class -- Working through change (II): oral history and working lives

John A. Kirk is professor of United States history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970, for which he won the 2003 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award.

AbstractThis article explores how the concept of intersectionality is useful for examining how class location and gender intersect in the workplace. Intersectionality foregrounds the complex ways that work identity is negotiated and achieved and how formations of identity constitute complex affiliations, solidarities and tensions in the workplace. I use data from oral histories of railway workers to illustrate the usefulness of intersectionality as an approach to analysing work. Intersectionality and the concept of structures of feeling are important tools for examining how work shapes social identity and action. These concepts have been central to an important research project conducted at the Working Lives Research Institute, part of the wider ESRC Identities programme.