Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination /
Shindo, Charles J.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-246) and index.
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.
Migrant agricultural laborers in art.
Arts, American.
Arts, Modern
Migrant agricultural laborers
Depressions
Dust storms
Labor camps
Droughts