OK Policy Blog » Robert Lee Maril http://okpolicy.org/blog Oklahoma Policy Institute Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:30:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tom Joad dances on http://okpolicy.org/blog/poverty/tom-joad-dances-on/ http://okpolicy.org/blog/poverty/tom-joad-dances-on/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:28:26 +0000 David http://okpolicy.org/blog/?p=4009 Kurt Hochenauer, whose OkieFunk: Notes from the Outback blog provides consistently sharp and perceptive commentary on Oklahoma political issues, recently had a nice piece in the Oklahoma Gazette putting the recent rise in poverty in the state in its historical perspective. He notes:

But what’s probably needed more than anything else is for more Oklahomans to realize how poverty is deeply rooted in the state’s history and remains the foundation for so many of the state’s social problems.

Hochenauer cites Robert Lee Maril’s 2000 book Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad, which provided a vivid ethnographic study of  how poverty plays out in the lives of eight Oklahoma families.

If you missed Doc Hoc’s commentary, it’s well worth a read.

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