Black Cowboy

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Black-Audience Westerns and the Politics of Cultural Identification in the 1930s
Julia Leyda
Cinema Journal
42, Number 1, Fall 2002
pp. 46-70


Abstract:

This essay argues that the black-audience musical westerns of the late
1930s attempted to reconfigure African American national identity in
their casting but also by strategically using anachronism and
geographical juxtaposition. These westerns created a dual present by
using the trope of contemporary Harlem alongside the
nineteenth-century setting, thereby ironically echoing the western
expansionist movement in a cinematic African American West.

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 9:54 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.separatecinema.com/exhibits_harlem.html
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