Writing/Righting Images of the West: A Brief Auto/Historiography of the Black Cowboy (Or “I want to be a (Black) Cowboy” . . . Still)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract
This short performative essay is a series of images and remembrances that offer an initial attempt at writing and righting the Black cowboy into the historiography of the West. Establishing a somewhat queer orientation to the West and Westerns, the essay situates a longstanding desire to be a cowboy.
Original Publication Citation
Alexander, B. K. (2014) (Essay). “Writing/Righting Images of the West: A Brief Auto/Historiography of the Black Cowboy (Or “I want to be a (Black) Cowboy” . . . Still).” In Special Issue “The Iconography of the West: Auto/Ethnographic Representations of the West(erns).” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies. 14:3, 227-231.
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Alexander, Bryant Keith, "Writing/Righting Images of the West: A Brief Auto/Historiography of the Black Cowboy (Or “I want to be a (Black) Cowboy” . . . Still)" (2014). Communication Studies Faculty Works. 82.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/comm_fac/82
