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Journal Article
Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 4–35.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 The author at the age of two in Canadian County, Oklahoma.
Courtesy of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
One or Two Things I Know about
Us: ”Okies” in American Culture...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 247–249.
Published: 01 October 1994
...J. Quinn Brisben Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 Letters to the Editors
It is all right for Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to use the term "Okies"; she
is one. I can use it too, for I am also one of the group. I ask that oth-
ers...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 1–3.
Published: 01 May 1994
...: 'Okies' in American Culture" brings a
distinctive personal voice to a memoir of growing up in Oklahoma,
and links this to an examination of the diverse and contradictory
representations of 'Okies' in popular culture, fiction, and historical
scholarship. She traces the transformation of 'the Okie...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 1–3.
Published: 01 October 1994
...,
to academic memoirs, to the poor and the “underclasses” of the U.S.
And then there is ”The Abusable Past.”
Finally we include J. Quinn Brisben’s letter on Roxanne Dunbar-
Ortiz’s article, ”One or Two Things I Know About Us: ‘Okies’ in
American Culture,” which appeared in the Spring 1994 issue...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 148–151.
Published: 01 May 1996
... left the cotton fields
of the San Joaquin Valley, fearing federal and state repatriation cam-
paigns. By 1935, Anglo migrants from the South and Southwest
poured into California looking for unskilled manual work. ”Okies,”
as these migrants from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas were deri-
sively...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 50–63.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... 41 Also from Nigeria, B. N. Ukegbu, a Catholic and product of the Irish Holy Ghost Fathers (received by de Valera in August 1962), sought to study Ireland’s economic development, 42 and Mr. Oki, who sought to view the organization of Ireland’s Department of Armed Forces. 43 The desire...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (51): 107–113.
Published: 01 October 1991
... the initiation into adulthood.
American blacks welcomed cars as escapes from the rigid social con-
trol of the segregated South.6 For Okies foreclosed in the 1930s, cars
provided a way to escape to the promised land, California.
One personal anecdote illustrates the way cars become vital to self...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 511–524.
Published: 01 May 1984
... chain has issued a placemat which boldly announces:
”WE’RE BRINGING BACK THE GOOD OLD DAYS.” And the
“good old days” turn out to be the decade in which one out of
every three Americans was unemployed. Naturally, no mention is
made of this uncomfortable fact. No hollow-eyed Okies look up...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 119–135.
Published: 01 May 2007
... overwhelmingly a
music performed by and for the white working class with roots in the rural South.
Such people are supposed to be part of the silent majority, the clean-cut law-and-
order folks of Merle Haggard’s 1969 “Okie from Muscogee,” or more recently, the
flag-waving patriots who are core...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (21): 151–168.
Published: 01 October 1979
... into the Plains and Pacific states. However, what dif-
ferentiated the migrant families' use of cars from that of farmers was
not the territory they traversed in cars. Although the flight of "Okies"
to California during the depression remains the most spectacular ex-
ample of migrant labor movement...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 126–143.
Published: 01 October 2018
... predecessors explicitly. The piece likened braceros to “Okies,” invoked John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath , and proclaimed that the “new drama” of braceros’ exploitation was “as tragic as the old one which in so many respects it resembles.” The photo-essay equated Nadel’s images with Margaret Bourke...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (102): 137–153.
Published: 01 October 2008
... with their
lunch pails. There was a man who managed the street repair service for the city
and a retired plumber. Across the street was Mr. Harris who was an Okie. A lot of
people in the neighborhood had these southern accents, although the people who
lived directly across the street from us were Verdugos...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 50–70.
Published: 01 October 2016
... of coherence and safety based on the exclusion of specific his-
tories of oppression and resistance.”64
Histories of transnational militarism were also denied through representa-
tions of innocent Okies “newly burdened with an unfortunate sense of connection to
the rest of the world.”65...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (67): 35–78.
Published: 01 January 1997
.... John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath vividly describes the fate
of the "Okies," who went from being farmer-owners to nomadic migrants in
California during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
31. The Spanish had introduced sheep grazing-the majority of the shepherds
were Basques...
