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The Bay Guardian says this book "reminds those of us who struggle for social justice of all that is at stake."
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.
"Red Dirt simply blew my socks off. This tough-minded, wonderfully evocative autobiography from the other end of Route 66 is nothing less than the secret history of poor white people in America."—Mike Davis, from the Foreword
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