http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2577683927

Radical genealogies : Okie women and Dust Bowl memories

This paper complicates the existing historiography about dust bowl migrants, often known as Okies, in Depression-era California...Centering on exceptions, I highlight the life and political work of three, relatively unknown Okie women: union organizer Lillie Dunn, radical writer Sanora Babb, and Dust Bowl poet Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel. Together, their stories stand outside and in conflict with most of what is written about the history of Okies in California.

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