| Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie Contributor(s): Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne (Author), Davis, Mike (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0806137754 ISBN-13: 9780806137759 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005055453 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.44" W x 8.1" (0.58 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne: - 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. |