Charles Jogi Shindo is a

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of United States

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. Dr. Shindo took his BA at the

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where he undertook a number of majors before settling on history. He then earned a master's degree at

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. He undertook his

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at the

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. His dissertation, entitled "Voices of the migrant : democracy and culture in the dust bowl works of John Steinbeck, John Ford, and Woody Guthrie" was completed under the direction of

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Robert Westbrook in 1992. Dr. Shindo's book, ''Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination'' challenges the common conception of the

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, arguing that a small group of artists perpetuated the stereotype of the downtrodden "Okie" to promote their own reformist agenda, when, in fact, the realities of the migrant worker was quite different. At

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, Dr. Shindo's course offerings center on

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, U.S. Cultural, and Post-Civil War history.

Bibliography

*Shindo, Charles J. ''Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination'' (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997) *Shindo, Charles J. "Myth of the Dust Bowl," ''Wilson Quarterly'', vol. 24, no. 4 (Autumn 2000): 25-30 *Shindo, Charles J. ''1927 and the Rise of Modern America'' (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010)

Awards

* W. Turrentine Jackson Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the

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(1992). * Roselyn Boneno Award for Teaching - Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (2003) * Caroline Bancroft Prize, Western History Department, Denver Public Library (1998)

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