American Exodus The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California

Name: American Exodus The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California
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ISBN: 9780195071368

ISBN-10: 0195071360

ISBN-13: 9780195071368

Edition: Reprint

Authors: James N. Gregory

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Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to California by dust storms, drought, and economic hardship. It was a story that generations of Americans have also come to know through Dorothea Lange's unforgettable photos of migrant families struggling to make a living in Depression-torn California. Now in James N. Gregory's pathbreaking American Exodus, there is at last an historical study that moves beyond the fiction and the photographs to uncover the full meaning of these events. American Exodus takes us back to the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the war boom influx of the 1940s to explore…

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List price: $22.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/12/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

James N. Gregory is professor of history at the University of Washington and director of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. He is author of the award-winning American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Migration and Resettlement



Out of the Heartland



The Limits of Opportunity



The Okie Problem



The Dilemma of Outsiders



The Okie Subculture



Plain-Folk Americanism



Up from the Dust



Special to God



The Language of a Subculture



Public Use Microdata Samples



Southwesterners in California Subregions 1935, 1940, 1950, 1970



Occupation and Income 1940-1970


Appendix D


Abbreviations


Notes


Index