Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination
United states, economic conditions, 1918-1945
United states, social conditions, 1865-1945
Migrant agricultural laborers
Droughts
American Arts
Depressions, 1929
Migrant labor
United states, intellectual life
Modern Arts
Depressions
Rural conditions
History
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 public memory of th…
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