Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination / by Shindo, Charles J.

Table of Contents: “…Displaced voices : the migrants as American victims -- The ideals of American democracy : New Deal reformers and the migrant -- The passion and the humanity : Dorothea Lange and Migrant worker -- The perfectibility of man : John Steinbeck and The grapes of wrath -- Photo essay: Introducing Americans to America : the image of the migrants -- The world-old desire to tell a story : John Ford and The grapes of wrath -- The things that you fight for : Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl ballads -- The uses of American culture : folklorists and the migrant -- The ghost of Tom Joad : the persistence of Dust Bowl representations.…”
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Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination / by Shindo, Charles J.

Table of Contents: “…Displaced voices : the migrants as American victims -- The ideals of American democracy : New Deal reformers and the migrant -- The passion and the humanity : Dorothea Lange and Migrant worker -- The perfectibility of man : John Steinbeck and The grapes of wrath -- Photo essay: Introducing Americans to America : the image of the migrants -- The world-old desire to tell a story : John Ford and The grapes of wrath -- The things that you fight for : Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl ballads -- The uses of American culture : folklorists and the migrant -- The ghost of Tom Joad : the persistence of Dust Bowl representations.…”