Red Dirt - by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.

From the Back Cover

In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz bears witness to a family and community which still clings to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.