Acknowledgements

Thank you to the very helpful anonymous reviewers at JPS. And many thanks to the wonderful Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Amherst College for feedback on earlier drafts of this manuscript, as well as to the local participants and organizers at Mt. Holyoke College of the Dust Bowl exhibit traveling nationally, Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry. They invited me to present this research, receive feedback and learn from other lectures and discussions associated with the exhibit. Thanks also to Rebecca Clausen, Fred Magdoff, Michaeline Crichlow, Michael Yates, Dwaipayan Sen, Colleen Woods, John Bellamy Foster, Christina Ergas, Erik Wallenberg, Brett Clark, Edward Melillo, Richard York, Jeff Humphrey, Eunmi Mun, Stefano Longo, Jan Dizard, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Chris Williams, who either helped through discussion or provided feedback on all or part of this work at various stages in its development. Special thanks to Gretchen Gano, Fayise Abrahim, Thomas Matthew, Paula Peña, Syed Abbas Shah, Amanda Strickland and Noraida Colón for excellent research and library assistance.