Lancaster provides a fascinating account that holds the potential to inform broader audiences about southern and American exclusionary racial practices that still exist today, albeit in a different form. He reminds us of the historical violence that undergirds what some would claim are simply the natural, neutral and self-selecting contemporary spatial divisions along racial lines.

Political Studies Review

On very rare occasions a book appears that is about a subject that is new territory not only to the book world but to the historical record for the most part. Such is the case for Guy Lancaster’s Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883-1924, easily one of the most important Arkansas history books to appear in quite a few years. It breaks new ground. . . .Not only is it a critical addition to your Arkansas history collection but individual readers may well look to their library to provide them access to this important story from Arkansas’s past. Accurate history is not just the story of pleasant events. It is the historian’s responsibility to report the good, the bad, and the ugly episodes in order to tell the entire story. It is incumbent on libraries to provide access to that full history for their students and readers.

Arkansas Libraries

This book will be an important resource for historians in plotting many incidents we have not heard of, while it will convince those not aware of this history that white supremacy and racial violence fundamentally shaped Arkansas. . . .This book should be read . . . in order for us to realize the full extent and legacy of racial violence in America.

Arkansas Historical Quarterly

This provocative and well-researched book is a noteworthy contribution to Southern historiography, . . .Scholars of labor and the South will discover new dimensions of the history and politics of white supremacy in this book.

Labor Studies Journal

Historian Guy Lancaster's fascinating . . . study on racial expulsion in Arkansas during the early Jim Crow era presents a compelling exploration of an understudied topic.

Journal of Southern History

Logically organized, clearly written and easily readable, this book deconstructs a temporal (1883 to 1924) and spatial (state, county, city) social movement to establish 'whites-only' counties and cities therein throughout Arkansas. . . .As an African American female born, raised, educated and employed for eighteen years as a college geography instructor, Lancaster’s book resonated with me . . . This historical text, when integrated with historical geography theory, themes, and methods has unique potential to make race relations discourse more place-specific, to make natural resource management economic development policy and practice more racially equitable in Arkansas and to serve as a place-based research model and laboratory for similarly situated states.

Historical Geography