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Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
  • Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2006
  • Pages: 248
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.44in - 0.53in - 0.58lb
  • EAN: 9780806137759
  • Categories: MemoirsWomen

About the Author

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.