Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather—a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian—had been a labor activist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the 20^th century, and stories of his work inspired her to lifelong social justice activism.

Dunbar-Ortiz’s odyssey from Oklahoma poverty to the urban New Left gives a working-class, feminist perspective on a time and a movement that forever changed American society. In a new afterword in Outlaw Woman, she reflects on her fast-paced life as a movement activist.

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