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Laborfest: Dust Bowl Okies in US Culture
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Date:
Monday, July 20, 2009
Time:
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Event Type:
Teach-In
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Location Details:
Modern Times Bookstore , 888 Valencia St., San Francisco (near 16th St and 24th St BART)
Dust-Bowl Okies in US Culture - Reading and discussion
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
How did a people so filled with a populist and socialist tradition in Oklahoma, and in the early years as Dust Bowl migrants in California, come to form the most conservative constituencies in California bringing men like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to state and eventually national power? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, will discuss and read from her own work and that of the late Wilma Elizabeth MacDaniel (the “Okie Bard” of the Central Valley), Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and John Steinbeck.
See also:
http://www.reddirtsite.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Elizabeth_McDaniel
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
http://merlehaggard.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard
http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
http://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
How did a people so filled with a populist and socialist tradition in Oklahoma, and in the early years as Dust Bowl migrants in California, come to form the most conservative constituencies in California bringing men like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to state and eventually national power? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, will discuss and read from her own work and that of the late Wilma Elizabeth MacDaniel (the “Okie Bard” of the Central Valley), Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and John Steinbeck.
See also:
http://www.reddirtsite.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Elizabeth_McDaniel
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
http://merlehaggard.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard
http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
http://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm
For more information:
http://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm
Added to the calendar on Sun, Jun 21, 2009 6:17AM
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