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Ain’t Got No Home This page intentionally left blank ain’t got no home America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left erin r oyston ba ttat The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill This book was published Library of Congress with the assistance of the Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fred W. Morrison Fund for Battat, Erin Royston. Southern Studies of the Ain’t got no home : America’s great migrations University of North and the making of an interracial left / Erin Royston Carolina Press. Battat. pages cm © 2014 The University of Includes bibliographical references and index. North Carolina Press isbn 978-1-4696-1402-1 (paperback) All rights reserved. isbn 978-1-4696-1403-8 (ebook) Set in Quadraat and 1. Migration, Internal—United States—History— Amatic by codeMantra. 20th century. 2. Migration, Internal—Political Manufactured in the aspects—United States—History—20th century. United States of America. 3. Migration, Internal, in literature. 4. American literature—20th century—History and criticism. The paper in this book meets the 5. Literature and society—United States— guidelines for permanence and History—20th century. 6. Populism—United durability of the Committee on States—History—20th century. 7. Right and left Production Guidelines for Book (Political science)—United States—History— Longevity of the Council on 20th century. I. Title. Library Resources. hb1965.b38 2014 304.80973—dc23 The University of North Carolina 2013035598 Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. 18 17 16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1 For James This page intentionally left blank contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Race, Sex, and the Hobo 15 2. An Okie Is Me 41 3. Steel Mill Blues 71 4. Beyond the Migrant Mother 95 5. Wartime Shipyard 127 Conclusion 163 Notes 175 Bibliography 201 Index 225 This page intentionally left blank illustrations 1. Photograph of a starving child of dust bowl migrants, by Dorothy Babb 59 2. The Migration of the Negro, panel 1, by Jacob Lawrence 77 3. The Migration of the Negro, panel 37, by Jacob Lawrence 78 4. Automobile Industry, mural study by William Gropper 82 5. Mother of seven children, photograph by Dorothea Lange 96 6. Mother and Child, lithograph by Elizabeth Catlett 96 7. Mother and child, photograph by Russell Lee 98 8. Young Indian mother and baby, photograph by Russell Lee 98 9. Japanese mother and daughter, photograph by Dorothea Lange 100 10. Mexican mother in California, photograph by Dorothea Lange 100 11. My role has been important in the struggle to organize the unorganized, linocut by Elizabeth Catlett 105 12. “From the kitchenette . . . to the white folk’s kitchen” 108 13. Mother and two children, photograph by Russell Lee 117 14. Madonna della Scala (detail), bas-relief marble sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti 118 15. Pietà (front view), marble sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti 118 16. This Is the Enemy, poster by C. V. Lewis 152
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