{"product_id":"alternative-oklahoma-contrarian-views-of-the-sooner-state-9780806138190","title":"Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this companion to his previous volume, \"\u003ci\u003eAn Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before\u003c\/i\u003e,\" Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahoma's unique populist past and address current political and social issues. Joyce invited scholars and political activists to speak their minds on subjects ranging from gender, race, and religion to popular music, the energy industry, and economics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese decidedly contrarian Sooner voices reflect the progressive, libertarian, and even radical viewpoints that influenced the state's creation. Contributors talk of growing up \"Okie and radical,\" of the legacy of Woody Guthrie in the Red Dirt music scene, and of the Sunbelt Alliance that helped to stop the building of the Black Fox nuclear power plant. They look back at Oklahoma City's role in the early civil rights sit-in movement and at an Oklahoman's experience with Vietnam Veterans Against the War. They consider religion outside the mainstream--and everyday women squarely within these unique expressions of faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn assembling these engaging essays about Oklahoma and its past, Joyce calls on the alternative approach to history championed by Howard Zinn and also invokes Oklahoman Paul Harvey in offering us \"the rest of the story.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlternative Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e urges an honest alternative exploration of the state's diverse past. It's an Oklahoma history that takes into account the overlooked and the left behind and contributes to a more open political dialogue in a state too often dismissed as unquestionably \"red.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyce, Davis D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavis D.Joyce, \u003c\/strong\u003eProfessor of History at East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma, served from 1994 to 1996 as Soros Professor of American Studies at Kossuth University in Hungary. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eEdward Channing and the Great Work\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHistory and Historians: Some Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, editor of \u003cem\u003eA History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e by Edward Channing, and coauthor of \u003cem\u003eUnited States History: A Brief Introduction for Hungarian Students\u003c\/em\u003e (with Tibor Glant) and \u003cem\u003eThe Writing of American History\u003c\/em\u003e, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarris, Fred L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTwice elected to the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma, \u003cb\u003eFred L. Harris\u003c\/b\u003e is now Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel \u003ci\u003eFollowing the Harvest.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328512626962,"sku":"9780806138190","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c0bdc67-bebb-43c6-b6a1-928edf7907af.jpg?v=1727743060","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alternative-oklahoma-contrarian-views-of-the-sooner-state-9780806138190","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}