About Us

Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Mission

The Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock strives to be a unique and reliable resource that explores and promotes Arkansas’s rich history through identifying, collecting, and preserving Arkansas records that are of enduring value to the state.

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture collects, keeps safe, and makes available Arkansas history that connects people to each other and their shared experience.

Project Contributors

Dr. Deborah Baldwin - Associate Provost and Director, Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Cody Besett - Student Success Archivist, Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Elise Tanner - Director of Digital Projects and Initiatives, Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Emily Summers - Processing Archivist, Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Brittany Fugate - Graduate Assistant, Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Harrison Mitchell - Graduate Assistant, Center for Arkansas History and Culture

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UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Books

Guerrero, Perla M. Nuevo South: Latinas/Os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place. First edition. Historia USA. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.

Journal Articles

Blackburn, Denise. “Cuban/Haitians Entrant Program.” In Defense of the Alien 6 (1983): 189–99. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23141067.

Jacklin, Jillian Marie. “Dangerous Marielitos: Wisconsin Newspapers and the Proliferation of a Negative Representation.” International Journal of Cuban Studies 10, no. 1 (2018): 30–52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/intejcubastud.10.1.0030#metadata_info_tab_contents.

Lipman, Jana K. “A Refugee Camp in America: Fort Chaffee and Vietnamese and Cuban Refugees, 1975-1982.” Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 2 (2014): 57–87. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.2.0057.

Peña, Susana. “‘Obvious Gays’ and the State Gaze: Cuban Visibility and U.S. Immigration Policy during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 16, no. 3 (September 2007): 482–514.

Shull, Kristina. “‘Nobody Wants These People’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Containment of Foreign Bodies.” Body/Nation: The Global Realms, 2014, 241–63. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv120qsd2.15.