Writing/Righting Images of the West
A Brief Auto/Historiography of the Black Cowboy (Or “ I Want to Be a (Black) Cowboy” . . . Still
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B K Alexander (0000-0001-7382-6696) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 227-231 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708614527554 |
| OpenAlex | W2006383527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
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
Aesthetics · American west · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Geometry · Historiography · Literature · Orientation (vector space · Performative utterance · Queer · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Race, History, and American Society · Gender Studies · History
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |