Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination

by Charles J. Shindo

Book Overview

More than any other event of the 1930s, the migration of thousands of jobless and dispossessed Americans from the Dust Bowl states to the "promised land" of California evokes the hardships and despair of the Great Depression. In this innovative new study, Charles Shindo shows how the public memory of that migration has been dominated not by academic historians but by a handful of artists and would-be reformers.

Shindo examines the images of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608109
• ISBN13: 9780700608102
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"