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Sarah D. Wald - The Nature of California. Race, Citizenship, and Farming Since the Dust Bowl.  - 9780295995663 - V9780295995663
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The Nature of California. Race, Citizenship, and Farming Since the Dust Bowl.

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Description for The Nature of California. Race, Citizenship, and Farming Since the Dust Bowl. Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL1; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.

The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America’s natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, many novels, plays, movies, and songs have dramatized the brutality and hardships of working in the California fields. Little scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us about who belongs in America, and in what ways they are allowed to belong. In The Nature of California, Sarah Wald analyzes this legacy and its consequences by examining ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295995663
SKU
V9780295995663
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sarah D. Wald
Sarah D. Wald is assistant professor of English and environmental studies at the University of Oregon.

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