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    On the dirty plate trail : remembering the Dust Bowl refugee camps (2007)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    Format: Online-Ressource (xxi, 184 p) , ill., maps , 26 cm
    Edition: 1st ed
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    ISBN: 9780292714458 , 0292714459
    Series Statement: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center imprint series
    Content: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Food on table, FSA camp -- High Plains -- Sanora Babb with Dust Bowl refugees -- "Dirty Plate Trail" -- "Okies" -- Mexican migrant workers in camp -- Mexican migrant worker with guitar in camp -- Slim Quinteros, labor organizer -- CIO camp, Mexican migrant worker with child -- CIO camp, Mexican migrant workers -- Dust Bowl refugee children -- Dusted out farmers -- Home on wheels -- Weed Patch Store -- Strike committee -- Strike picket line -- Picket sign -- Memorial service, Pixley strike victims -- Peaches, Calpak orchard, Visalia -- Loshope family -- Dust Bowl girl -- Games, FSA camp -- Halloween in an FSA camp -- Refugee farmer and guitar, FSA camp -- Refugee workers repair their cars -- Tom Collins -- FSA mobile office -- Tom Collins making calls -- FSA camp, Shafter -- Wash day in an FSA camp -- Refugee worker laying wood floor of tent home -- Laundry, FSA camp, Shafter -- Sanora Babb (1938) -- Dorothy Babb (ca. 1940) -- Refugees' temporary home alongside road -- King family, refugee workers and musicians -- Harlan and Julie King -- Charlie and Bill King -- Charlie singing, Bill King with bass fiddle -- Beckenwirth family -- Migrant Mother, FSA -- FSA camp, mother and child -- Beulah King -- Dust storm over highway near Dalhart, Texas -- Farm buildings half buried in sand -- "Bindlestiff"- itinerant worker -- Southern Pacific Railroad billboard -- Tom Collins and Sanora Babb -- Strike committee with organizer -- Strike committee, organizers -- Picket car -- Picket captain, Shafter strike -- Picket line, Shafter -- Picket line, Shafter -- Girl washing clothes in FSA camp washhouse -- FSA clinic, Shafter -- FSA clinic, Shafter -- Billboard, corporate farm near Merced, California -- Miller & Lux, corporate farmer -- Sheep farm, Miller & Lux -- Sunkist packing plant, Murphy Ranch (page 70).
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780292714458
    Additional Edition: Druckausg. Babb, Sanora, 1907 - 2005 On the dirty plate trail Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2007 ISBN 0292714459
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780292714458
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780292721449
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780292714458
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    HU 9800
    Keywords: USA ; Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1931-1939 ; Great Plains ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1931-1939 ; Great Plains ; Saisonarbeiter ; Landarbeiter ; Geschichte 1931-1939
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    On the dirty plate trail : remembering the Dust Bowl refugee camps (2007)
    Austin :University of Texas Press,
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    almafu_BV035687646
    Format: xxi, 184 p. : , ill., maps ; , 26 cm.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 0-292-71445-9 , 978-0-292-71445-8
    Series Statement: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center imprint series
    Content: "The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Ironically, their work risked sublimating the subjects-real people and actual experience-into aesthetic artifacts, icons of suffering, deprivation, and despair. Working for the Farm Security Administration in California's migrant labor camps in 1938-39, Sanora Babb, a young journalist and short story writer, together with her sister Dorothy, a gifted amateur photographer, entered the intimacy of the dispossessed farmers' lives as insiders, evidenced in the immediacy and accuracy of their writings and photos
    Content: Born in Oklahoma and raised on a dryland farm, the Babb sisters had unparalleled access to the day-by-day harsh reality of field labor and family life. This book presents a vivid, firsthand account of the Dust Bowl refugees, the migrant labor camps, and the growth of labor activism among Anglo and Mexican farm workers in California's agricultural valleys linked by the "Dirty Plate Trail" (Highway 99). It draws upon the detailed field notes that Sanora Babb wrote while in the camps, as well as on published articles and short stories about the migrant workers and an excerpt from her Dust Bowl novel, Whose Names Are Unknown. Like Sanora's writing, Dorothy's photos reveal an unmediated, personal encounter with the migrants, portraying the social and emotional realities of their actual living and working conditions, together with their efforts to organize and to seek temporary recreation
    Content: An authority in working-class literature and history, volume editor Douglas Wixson places the Babb sisters' work in relevant historical and social-political contexts, examining their role in reconfiguring the Dust Bowl exodus as a site of memory in the national consciousness. Focusing on the material conditions of everyday existence among the Dust Bowl refugees, the words and images of these two perceptive young women clearly show that, contrary to stereotype, the "Okies" were a widely diverse people, including not only Steinbeck's sharecropper "Joads" but also literate, independent farmers who, in the democracy of the FSA camps, found effective ways to rebuild lives and create communities."--Publisher description
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Language: English
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