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12/08/2025

Aaron Anderson "Rock" Van Winkle was born into slavery and is believed to have been one of the first enslaved persons to be brought to Northwest Arkansas. After emancipation, he became a landowner, father, and community member in Bentonville, Arkansas. But even today, his story remains largely absent from public memory.

In this episode, we sit down with local historian Jerry Moore to explore Rock’s life and legacy, and to consider how the stories of formerly enslaved people have been preserved, distorted, or forgotten in the place they helped shape.

https://www.theunderview.com/episodes/the-underview-the-aaron-anderson-rock-van-winkle-family-with-jerry-moore

After the interview, we join Mr. Moore on a tour of three significant sites tied to Rock Van Winkle’s life: the stone farmhouse he owned, his grave at Bentonville Cemetery, and a rarely noticed public tablet at James Berry Park. Together, these places invite us to reflect on how memory is rooted in place and how public recognition is often reserved for only a few.

05/08/2025

the founding ideologies with Dr. Todd J. Stockdale

From Enlightenment ideals to the myth of the American frontier, the founding ideologies of the United States have long shaped how we define humanity, progress, and belonging. In this episode, Dr. Todd Stockdale invites us to trace how these ideologies, especially the Western liberal view of the autonomous individual, intersected with Protestant theology and national identity.

https://www.theunderview.com/episodes/the-underview-the-founding-ideologies-dr-todd-j-stockdale

Drawing on the work of John Locke, Max Weber, and Karl Marx, we explore how these frameworks have informed what counts as good and bad, civilized and savage, included and excluded, preserved and erased. And we ask what it would mean to reimagine our shared future not through domination, but through a deeper vision of what it means to be fully human.

Dr. Stockdale challenges us to examine how our ideas of justice, freedom, and selfhood have been formed by settler colonial logics, and how healing might begin by telling a different story. This conversation builds a bridge between earlier episodes exploring Indigenous erasure and theological complicity, and the final arc of this season, which seeks to confront systems of race, class, and gender that continue to shape our country and Northwest Arkansas today.

31/07/2025

Religion in the South is more than tradition; it’s a force that has shaped politics, belonging, and identity across generations. In this episode, we return to Jared Phillips to ask for a historical view to try and understand where that power comes from, and how it takes root in the South and places like Northwest Arkansas?

https://www.theunderview.com/episodes/the-underview-the-president-religion-in-the-south-with-dr-jared-phillips

Throughout the season, we’ve heard guests reference the role of faith, from schools to city planning, from community resilience to systems of exclusion. And while no single episode can capture the full complexity of religion in the South, this conversation asks us to trace the beginnings. What is the origin story of evangelical influence in American politics? How did race, region, and religion become entangled in the modern South? And what can we learn about the Ozarks, and ourselves, by looking at one of the most significant turning points: the rise of President Jimmy Carter?

Dr. Phillips helps us unpack how Carter’s 1976 election opened the door for Southern evangelicalism to enter the national political arena. But the story doesn’t end there. We explore how faith communities that once emphasized humility, justice, and community care found themselves swept into a movement intertwining spiritual conviction with political power.

This episode doesn’t offer easy answers, but it does offer a starting point. A moment to pause and ask: how did we get here? How have religious identities shaped who belongs, and who doesn’t, in our politics, our policies, and our public life?

At a recent AIRE rally in Springdale, organizers and community members gathered with purpose and power. The event was a ...
25/07/2025

At a recent AIRE rally in Springdale, organizers and community members gathered with purpose and power. The event was a bold stand for immigrant rights, language justice, and the dignity of every family in Northwest Arkansas. These photos tell a story of courage, community, and the fight to belong.

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22/07/2025

In this episode, we sit down with Irvin Camacho, a Community Rights Organizer and immigrant advocate based in Northwest Arkansas. Irvin shares how his family's experience—his parents working in the region’s poultry plants—shaped his understanding of labor, language, and belonging. Through his work with AIRE on language justice, immigrant rights education, and deportation defense, Irvin is at the forefront of organizing efforts to challenge anti-immigrant legislation and support families impacted by detention and deportation.

https://www.theunderview.com/episodes/the-underview-immigrant-advocate-irvin-camacho-community-organizer

This conversation offers a clear and grounded look at how recent laws and policies in Arkansas are affecting Hispanic and Latino residents, and what it means to live in a place where systems of power often ignore or invisibilize entire communities. Irvin’s voice calls us to listen, to understand, and to ask what it truly means to be in community with one another.

15/07/2025

In Northwest Arkansas, the poultry industry has long been a cornerstone of the region’s economic growth. Behind the refrigerated cases and production lines are thousands of workers, many of them immigrants, whose stories and experiences are rarely part of the public conversation.

In this episode, we sit down with Magaly Licolli, co-founder and Executive Director of Venceremos, a worker-based organization advocating for poultry workers in Arkansas. Magaly helps us explore the conditions inside the plants, the structural factors that shape workers’ lives, and the role that community organizing can play in amplifying their voices.

https://www.theunderview.com/episodes/the-underview-laborers-poultry-workers-magaly-licolli-venceremos

Together, we ask: What are the realities faced by the people who keep this essential industry running? How do policies around labor, immigration, and corporate accountability intersect? And what does it mean to build a region where all who contribute to its growth are seen, heard, and valued?

Soldados Razos at War by Dr. Steven Rosales explores why Mexican American men enlisted and served in World War II, Korea...
04/07/2025

Soldados Razos at War by Dr. Steven Rosales explores why Mexican American men enlisted and served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam—and how that service reshaped their identity, masculinity, and political consciousness.

Drawing from oral histories and archival records, Rosales shows how military service offered both a path to socioeconomic mobility and a catalyst for postwar activism.

While the collective patriotism of WWII and Korea contrasted sharply with the fractured experience of Vietnam, each generation of Chicano servicemen emerged with a transformed sense of self and a drive to claim full citizenship in a nation they fought to defend.

Image 1The Adams-Onís Treaty, signed in 1819 between the United States and Spain, was a landmark agreement that signific...
02/07/2025

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The Adams-Onís Treaty, signed in 1819 between the United States and Spain, was a landmark agreement that significantly shaped the territorial boundaries of the young U.S. Under the treaty, Spain ceded Florida to the United States, ending years of conflict and ambiguity over control of the region. In return, the U.S. agreed to relinquish any claims to Texas, recognizing it as Spanish territory at the time. The treaty also clarified the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase, drawing a line from the Gulf of Mexico through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean—establishing a clear and expansive U.S. western border. As part of the deal, the U.S. assumed responsibility for up to $5 million in claims that American citizens had made against Spain. Negotiated by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and Spanish envoy Luis de Onís, the treaty not only secured Florida but also marked a major step in America’s expansion across the continent.

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The Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 established Mexico as a federal republic made up of free and sovereign states, along with several federal territories and a central federal district. Key regions included large combined states like Coahuila y Texas and the vast northern territories of Alta California, Baja California, and Santa Fe de Nuevo México. This framework defined the national map of 1824, spanning from Central America to what is now the southwestern United States, and laid the groundwork for future territorial disputes and independence movements.

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Map of Mexico in 1824

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Map of percentage of population of Americans of Hispanic or Latino descent in 2020. In 2020, there were 65 million Americans of Hispanic or Latino descent.

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Largest immigrant community country of origin in 2020.

01/07/2025

For decades, Latino immigrants have come to the United States in search of stability, opportunity, and a better future. But what brought them specifically to Arkansas—and to Northwest Arkansas in particular? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Steven Rosales, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Arkansas Department of History, to trace the broader arc of Latino migration and the forces—economic, political, and corporate—that shaped where people went and why.

https://www.theunderview.com/episodes/the-underview-history-of-latino-immigration-dr-steven-rosales

Dr. Rosales helps us understand how U.S. immigration policy has long oscillated between invitation and exclusion, welcoming Latino laborers in times of need and then pushing them out once their work is no longer deemed essential. We look at the Bracero Program, the emergence of right-to-work laws, and the rise of poultry and construction industries in the South—especially in Arkansas—as key to understanding why this region became a new gateway for Latino communities.

This conversation lays the groundwork for what comes next in our season, connecting labor, immigration, and corporate power to the deeper questions of who belongs and what it costs to stay.

25/06/2025

In part two of our conversation with Jared Phillips, we trace the transformation of the Ozarks from an agrarian culture built on land, memory, and mutuality into a region shaped by corporate industry and consolidated power.

https://www.theunderview.com/episodes/the-underview-the-ozarks-with-dr-jared-m-phillips-part-2

We explore how poultry integration, economic policy, and the rise of companies like Tyson and Walmart reshaped Northwest Arkansas, altering not just the economy, but the identity of the place itself.

This episode bridges the legacy of civil rights and labor with the next wave of regional change: the rise of Latino immigration, the demand for cheap labor, and the political decisions that continue to define who belongs.

The images from Alli Thurmond Quinlan’s research on the history of zoning laws in Southeast Fayetteville. 1. 1960s zoni...
20/06/2025

The images from Alli Thurmond Quinlan’s research on the history of zoning laws in Southeast Fayetteville.

1. 1960s zoning to current zoning

2. 1945 Six Years Plan to relocate black community out of city limits.

3. Sewer line route vs other viable options

4. Closer look at image 3.

5. Park Intentions vs 1990 sewer line route

17/06/2025

In this episode, we continue the story of Southeast Fayetteville—this time by examining the systems that helped shape, and often erase, its historic Black community. Architect and former Fayetteville Planning Commissioner Alli Thurmond Quinlan joins us to uncover how zoning policies, preservation rules, and land use codes have operated as tools of exclusion across generations. Building on the firsthand testimony shared in our last episode with Tommie Flowers Davis, we explore how seemingly neutral planning decisions have had deeply racialized consequences.

https://www.theunderview.com/episodes/the-underview-fayetteville-historic-district-alli-thurmond-quinlan-flintlock

Alli helps us understand how policies like minimum lot sizes, nonconforming use codes, and historic preservation standards have systematically excluded Black residents from housing assistance, infrastructure investment, and neighborhood protection. Together, we ask: how can cities like Fayetteville begin to repair the harm? And how can planning be transformed into a tool for justice rather than a barrier to it?

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