Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist, by Linda Gordon

Further Reading

Cletus E. Daniel, Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870–1941 (Ithaca, 1981).

Pete Daniel, Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880 (Urbana, 1985).

Jane De Hart Matthews, “Arts and the People: The New Deal Quest for a Cultural Democracy,” Journal of American History, 62 (Sept. 1975), 316–39.

Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life (New York, 1978).

Sally Stein, “Passing Likeness: Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ and the Paradox of Iconicity,” in Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, ed. Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis (New York, 2003).

Devra Weber, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal (Berkeley, 1994).