Children Of Hooverville

After 13-year-old Elsie Davis loses her family farm to the bank and her brother to the dust storms, she joins family and friends on a forced journey along Route 66 in search of a better life in California. Together they must survive unimaginable hardships and overcome theft, illness and unsympathetic authorities. But when at last they arrive in the Golden State, it may not be the promised land they had hoped for..

Hooverville was an excellent example of the extent of the Great Depression. It was a shanty town built by the homeless. If you know the facts about the Hoovervilles, you will begin to understand the Great Depression should never happen again. Along with this understanding will come a strong desire to participate in economic and political discussions starting your own home.

Discusses what life was like for children and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.

Hooverville was an excellent example of the extent of the Great Depression. It was a shanty town built by the homeless. If you know the facts about the Hoovervilles, you will begin to understand the Great Depression should never happen again. Along with this understanding will come a strong desire to participate in economic and political discussions starting your own home.

Pizer explores six novels to define naturalism and explain its tenacious hold throughout the twentieth century on the American creative imagination.

Racism is the quintessential, unexamined and misunderstood political, economic and social issues in the United States today. Racism in the United States is content dependent and has a contingent shelf life. It has no inherent permanent, independent ability to exist on its own. It is precariously perched atop the rickety scaffolding of overt but unasked questions, lies and misinformation from politicians who reap fame and financial fortune from the perpetuation of race against race. Through the pages of this book I will unravel and disjoint limb by limb that black scarecrow of race; rip off its hypocritical fig leaf, thereby exposing racist politicians in all their ugly nakedness to white voters and the millions of white men, women and children who are direct victims of the economic collateral damage to whites by this race-based political propaganda.

Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals, including works inspired by the books of children's authors such as Roald Dahl, P.L. Travers, and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lionel Bart, and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of increased importance of musical theater in the lives of children and young adults.