Red Dirt: Growing Up OkieVerso, 1997 - Počet stran: 224 Drawing deeply on the stories she heard in her early years, journalist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz brings to life one of the least understood groups in US historypoor rural whites, who still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners. They are against abortion and for prayer in school; and some of them are members of the militia movement, allegedly behind the Oklahoma City bombing. |
Obsah
Buried Treasure | 74 |
Plagues | 132 |
Trying to Be a Typical Teenager | 159 |
Higher Education | 183 |
Diamond in the Rough | 197 |
California Litany | 219 |
Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny
Běžně se vyskytující výrazy a sousloví
Anita Bryant asked asthma Aunt Ruth baby Baptist basketball bathroom beautiful Belle Starr Benny Billy brother California called chicken church cowboy Daddy's Darla door dream drove Dunbar Dust Bowl eyes farm father felt friends front girls Goodnight Irene graduated grandfather Green Corn Rebellion hair Hank heard high school horses Indian Jimmy kids kitchen knew LaNiece Laurence lived looked Lorene loved Mama's Masonic McAllen mother movie nearly never night Okie Oklahoma City Piedmont play poor preacher preacher's wife radio Rainbow Girls red dirt rhythm and blues ride Roxie Saturday Scots-Irish settlers sharecropped sister Socialist stared stay stopped stories student summer Sunday talked teacher tell thought told took town Travis Ulster-Scots Uncle Bob Vera's walked wanted watching WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL Wobbly woman Yukon