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n nHow many of us really know every side to Oklahomas past and present?n nIn this companion to his previous volume, An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before, Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahomas 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.n nThese decidedly contrarian Sooner voices reflect the progressive, libertarian, and even radical viewpoints that influenced the states 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 Citys role in the early civil rights sit-in movement and at an Oklahomans experience with Vietnam Veterans Against the War. They consider religion outside the mainstream--and everyday women squarely within these unique expressions of faith.n nIn 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.n nAlternative Oklahoma urges an honest alternative exploration of the states diverse past. Its 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.n
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