Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Mike Davis (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806137759
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	02/13/2006
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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.