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.
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A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz s "Red Dirt" unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s ...
Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that has grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One Is Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States.
This second edition has a new introduction to frame the analysis of the struggle for immigrant rights and the roots of the backlash.
Justin Akers Chacon is the author of the forthcoming Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican...
Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that has grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One Is Illegal exposes t...