Ruth Frick O’Brien’ Blog Post
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Who said the dead can’t speak?
Cesar Chavez, CC, was the only person that I was allowed to thumb my nose at, literally. Growing up with a mom who grew up on the land that CC and Dolores Huente often boycotted and often had events, was odd, to say the least.
Why this was odd is because of my mother’s unique personality as well as the circumstances or the events that surrounded her upbringing in Weed Patch California.
I grew up mainly in Santa Barbara, but we then moved to her hometown where she thought both her brothers would introduce her to ranchers or farmers (i.e. their profession). It didn’t happen. But I don’t need to discuss the sexism here. (That’s for another blog post.)
The NYT interviewed 60 people. This is remarkable. And since I teach only graduate education, this is worthy of a dissertation. If it was an MA it would have done too much original research in Weed Patch’s closest city — Bakersfield California.
I”m finishing a book on John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath, but really it is a book to understand my family — the extended Frick family of California (not New Jersey or New York City.) At this point, I know too much.
Stay tuned for more blogs later. P.S. I would give Manny, Sarah, and Alan a investigative journalist Pulitzer Prize award if I was on the nomination committee and the prize committee. I’m not. 🙁
The two articles are in the Thursday and Friday papers. They all ring true. Bravo New York Times. Being married to a journalist, I would think there is a book that follows. I’d buy it.
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Who said the dead can’t speak?*
Cesar Chavez, CC, was the only person that I was allowed to thumb my nose at, literally. Growing up with a mom who grew up on the land that CC and Dolores Huerta often boycotted and often had events, was odd, to say the least.
Why this was odd is because of my mother’s unique personality as well as the circumstances or the events that surrounded her upbringing in Weed Patch California.
I grew up mainly in Santa Barbara, but we then moved to her hometown where she thought both her brothers would introduce her to ranchers or farmers (i.e. their profession). It didn’t happen. But I don’t need to discuss the sexism here. (That’s for another blog post.)
The New York Times interviewed 60 people. This is remarkable. And since I teach only graduate education, this is worthy of a dissertation. If it was an MA it would have done too much original research in Weed Patch’s closest city — Bakersfield California.
I”m finishing a book on John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath, but really it is a book to understand my family — the extended Frick family of California (not New Jersey or New York City.) At this point, I know too much.
Stay tuned for more blogs later. P.S. I would give Manny, Sarah, and Alan** an investigative journalist Pulitzer Prize award if I was on the nomination committee and the prize committee. I’m not. 🙁
The two articles are in the Thursday and Friday papers. They all ring true. Bravo New York Times. Being married to a journalist, I would think there is a book that follows. I’d buy it.
*Sorry the pagination is off.
**The journalists to credit Alan Blinder, Manny Fernandez, Sarah Hurtes,
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Academic Interests
Subjects or Topics: Political Movements, American Social Movements; The American Presidency (TAP)_ Obama & former 20th century presidents – Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Obama; Political Movements; American Labor Movement & Organized Labor in late 19th and 20th centuries; Anarchy Studies; Disability Studies, incl. Disability Workplace Practices; Women & Gender Studies, incl. Civil Rights for Women & Politics , incl. Persons w/ Disabilities (PWD); Political Theory+Political Philosophy or Everyday Resistance, Identities & Social Movements (PRISM), law & narrative theory of fiction & creative non-fiction; Genealogical Narratives & Contemporary History. Qualitative Research Methodologies: American Political Development (APD) & Am. Pol. Thought (APT + APD) = Am. Pol. Perspectivism (APP); Legal Theory & Thought; Am. Studies; Am. Law & Political Movements; Am. Law & Social Movements; Law & Creative Non-Fiction & Fiction; Narrative Theory; Case Studies, Ethnography, Document & Content Analysis & In-depth Interviewing Theories & Techniques.
Education
Ph.D. Political Science (History Minor), UCLA (American politics, political theory in Political Science) & history from History Department) ; D. Phil. , M.A. Political Science UCLA; B.A. Political Science, Claremont McKenna College (then Claremont Men’s College, 3rd co-ed class ); High School Diploma, Capitol Page School, Washington, D.C. (Rep Ketchum, William M. sponsor, eligible not by patronage). GOP ended congressional pages in August 2011 after being continuously run when U.S. Congress opened.
