Bibliography and Links
Related Publications (nonfiction):
Tomás Almaguer, Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California (1994).
Francisco E. Balderrama and Raymond Rodriguez. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (1995).
Scott E. Casper and Lucinda M. Long, eds. Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850 – 2000 (2007).
Camille Guerin-Gonzales. Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900–1939 (1994).
James M. Gregory. American Exodus: Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California (Oxford University, 1989).
Marilynn S. Johnson. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (1994).
Peter La Chapelle. Proud to be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music and Migration to Southern California (2007).
Larry Langman. Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking.
Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo. Abiding Courage: African American Women and the East Bay Community (1996).
Lary May. Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry, 1900-1929 (1980).
Lary May. The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of American Identity (2000).
Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, 1910 – 1963 (2001).
Charles Musser. The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (1994).
Mae Ngai. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
George Sánchez. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900 – 1945 (Oxford University Press, 1996).
Quintard Taylor. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528 – 1990 (1998).
Donald Worster. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979).
Related Publications (fiction):
John Steinbeck. Grapes of Wrath (2002).
Victor Villaseñor. Rain of Gold (1991).
María Helena Viramontes. Under the Feet of Jesus (2000).
Web / Multimedia Suggestions:
African American Museum and Library, Oakland
http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/AAMLO/
The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl (a PBS documentary)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html
Audio from Rosie the Riveter Project, City of Richmond
http://www.rosietheriveter.org/oral.htm
Image of African American female “Rosie”
http://www.rosietheriveter.org/index.htm
Birth of a Nation movie poster
http://www.filmsite.org/birt.html
Fight in the Fields (a PBS documentary)
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/resources.html
Gene Autry discography and photos:
http://www.geneautry.com/home.php
A History of Black Americans in California
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/5views/5views2.htm
“Letter of Repatriation” sent to California resident (1933)
http://www.katavila.com/alfred/repatriation.jpg
Map of Bay Area with historical WWII links
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/maps.htm
Map of Route 66
http://www.national66.org/66hstry.html
Newspaper file of a repatriate
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-04-1930s-deportees-cover_x.htm
Photo from Dorothea Lange “Migrant Mother” collection
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
Radio documentary on repatriates (produced by the BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1516_assignment/page12.shtml
Various photos during Great Depression
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/browse.cgi?db=1&pos=1
“Voices from the Dust Bowl” Library of Congress Folklore Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Films / Documentaries:
Betrayal and Violations: Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s. Classified Films, 2008.
Break of Dawn. Directed by Isaac Artenstein, 1988.
Terminology links:
Agricultural Adjustment Act
http://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_11.html
Backlot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlot
Biograph
http://www.biographcompany.com/history_home.html
Edison Studios
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Studios
Great Depression
http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm
Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
Kaiser Shipyards
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/ric.htm
Mexican Revolution of 1910
http://countrystudies.us/mexico/
Open shop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_shop
Patented recording equipment
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Edison_Motion_Pictures4.htm
Repatriation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation
Route 66
http://www.national66.org/66hstry.html
Second Gold Rush
http://www.coastalconservancy.ca.gov/coast&ocean/spr98/a07.htm