Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West
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Abstract
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of select texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or under-represented in studies focused only on traditional literary material: heretofore unexamined writing by Rose Gordon, who wrote for local western publications rather than for a national audience; memoirs and letters of musicians, performers, and singers (such as W. C. Handy) who lived in or wrote about touring the American West; Percival Everett’s fiction addressing contemporary black western experience; the novels and films of Oscar Micheaux; black-cast westerns starring Herb Jeffries; largely unappreciated and unexamined episodes from the “golden age of western television” that feature African American actors; film and television westerns that use science fiction settings to imagine a “post-racial” or “post-soul” frontier. Despite recent interest in the history of the African American West, we know very little about how the African American past in the West has been depicted in a full range of imaginative forms. Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos takes us another step further in the journey of discovering how the African American West has been experienced, imagined, and performed.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
- 1 Performing (in) the African American West: Minstrel Shows, Brass Bands, Hoo-Doo Cowboys, and Other Musical Tricksters
- 2 “Try to Refrain from That Desire”: Self-Control and Violent Passion in Oscar Micheaux’s African American Western
- 3 “This Strange White World”: Race and Place in Era Bell Thompson’s American Daughter and RoseGordon’s Newspaper Writing
- 4 Cowboys, Cooks, and Comics: African American Characters in Westerns of the 1930s
- 5 Oscar Micheaux, The Exile, and the Black Western Race Film
- 6 Sammy Davis Jr., Woody Strode, and the Black Westerner of the Civil Rights Era
- 7 Looking at the Big Picture: Percival Everett’s Western Fiction
- 8 The Post-Soul Cowboy on the Science Fiction Frontier
- Conclusion: The D Is Silent
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End Matter
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