One or Two Things I Know About Us: Rethinking the Image and Role of the 'Okies'
2002; Monthly Review Foundation; Volume: 54; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.14452/mr-054-03-2002-07_2
ISSN0027-0520
Autores Tópico(s)Academic Freedom and Politics
ResumoWhile at work on this paper, I glanced at the headline in the morning newspaper: "SWAT Team Kills Gunman at Sacramento Tax Office," and I said to myself, "Probably an Okie." I read the article and found no reference to Okies—that would never happen in California these days—but the evidence was there: A white man named Jim Ray Holloway, age fifty-three, from Manteca, wearing a cowboy hat, carrying a rifle, a shotgun, and a hand gun, ex-cop, mad about taxes. The name, the age, the hometown in the agricultural Central Valley, the cowboy hat, the kinds of weapons, the career, the lightening rage at the state, all point to his being an Okie.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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