Whayne is a professor of history at the U of A and author, coauthor or editor of 11 books. Her area of interest is in Arkansas history, Southern history, race relations, agriculture and the modern plantation.
Where’s Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when you need him? The 2021 book “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court,” needs to be banned so more people read it.
Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975 was awarded the Henry A. Wallace Prize by the Agricultural History Society in 2018, as well as the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Prize by the Forest History Society.
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