Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

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University of Oklahoma Press, 1 лют. 2006 р. - 228 стор.
In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz bears witness to a family and community which still clings to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.

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The Great Good Luck of the Found Horseshoe
1
Red Diaper Baby?
9
Dust Bowl Baby
21
Prairie Red Wing
37
Patrimony
43
Once Master of the House
49
Fields of Clover
67
Buried Treasure
89
Plagues
131
SheLion
139
Trying to Be a Typical Teenager
159
Higher Education
183
Diamond in the Rough
197
California Litany
219
Afterword to the Oklahoma Edition
225
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Becoming a Girl
113

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Anita Bryant asked asthma Aunt Ruth baby Baptist basketball bathroom Belle Starr Benny Billy brother California called church cowboy Daddy's Darla door dream drove Dunbar Dust Bowl eyes farm farmers father felt friends front girls Goodnight Irene graduated grandfather Green Corn Rebellion hair Hank heard high school horses Indian Jimmy kids kitchen knew LaNiece Laurence lived looked Lorene loved Mama's Masonic mother movie nearly never night Okie Oklahoma City Piedmont play poor preacher preacher's wife radio Rainbow Girls red dirt rhythm and blues ride Roxie Saturday Scots-Irish settlers sharecropped sister Socialist stared stay stopped stories student summer Sunday talked teacher teenager tell thought told took town Travis Ulster-Scots Uncle Bob Vera's walked wanted watching WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL Wobbly woman Woody Guthrie Yukon

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Про автора (2006)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a writer, teacher, historian, and social activist, is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies at California State University, East Bay, and author or editor of numerous scholarly articles and books, including the award-winning An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, as well as two other memoirs.

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НазваRed Dirt: Growing Up Okie
АвторRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
ПодякаMike Davis
Виданняілюстроване, передрук
ВидавецьUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 2006
ISBN0806137754, 9780806137759
Обсяг228 стор.
  
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