The great Oklahoma swindle : race, religion, and lies in America's weirdest state
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
James, Lloyd, narrator.
Published
[Ashland] : Blackstone Publishing, ℗2023.
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital
Status
Choctaw Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
[Ashland] : Blackstone Publishing, ℗2023.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Unabridged.
Participants/Performers
Read by Lloyd James.
Description
Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another "flyover state." A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United StatesOver the span of a century, Oklahoma gave birth to movements for an African American homeland, a vibrant Socialist Party, armed rebellions of radical farmers, and an insurrection by a man called Crazy Snake. In the same era, the state saw numerous oil booms, one of which transformed the small town of Tulsa into the "oil capital of the world."Add to the chaos one of the nation's worst episodes of racial violence, a statewide takeover by the Ku Klux Klan, and the rise of a paranoid far-right agenda by a fundamentalist preacher named Billy James Hargis and you have the recipe for America's most paradoxical state. Far from being a placid place in the heart of "flyover country," Oklahoma has been a laboratory for all kinds of social, political, and artistic movements, producing a singular list of weirdos, geniuses, and villains. Raised in Tulsa, Cobb engages Oklahomans across the boundaries of race and class to hear their troubles, anxieties, and aspirations and delves deep to understand their contradictory and often stridently independent attitudes. Interweaving memoir, social commentary, and sometimes surprising research around the themes of race, religion, and politics, Cobb presents an insightful portrait that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about the American Heartland
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