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Blood
on the Border:
A Memoir of the Contra War
With Blood on the Border:
A Memoir of the Contra War, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz presents
the third volume in her critically-acclaimed memoir. In
this long-awaited book, she vividly recounts on-the-ground
memories of the contra war in Nicaragua, chronicling the
US-sponsored terror inflicted on the people of Nicaragua
following their 1981 election of the Socialist Sandinistas
that ousted Reagan darling and vicious dictator Somoza.
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Outlaw
Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975
Dunbar-Ortiz was also a dedicated anti-war
activist and organizer throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During
the war years she was a fiery, indefatigable public speaker
on issues of patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and racism.
She worked in Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade and formed
associations with other revolutionaries across the spectrum
of radical and underground politics, including the SDS,
the Weather Underground, the Revolutionary Union, and the
African National Congress. But unlike the majority of those
in the New Left, Dunbar-Ortiz grew up poor, female, and
part-Indian in rural Oklahoma, and she often found herself
at odds not only with the ruling class but also with the
Left and with the women's movement. More>>
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Red
Dirt: Growing up Okie
At once sweetly nostalgic and
inexorably grim, a true study of light and dark. Village
Voice
When the peasants are deprived
of fields to work, so goes the chorus of an old Irish ballad,
all that is left is the love of the land. In this exquisite
rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust
Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
bears witness to a family and community which still clings
to the dream of America as a republic of landowners. More>>
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