Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier - Softcover

Ravage, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087480941X ISBN 13: 9780874809411

Verlag: The University of Utah Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

It is difficult to piece together existing records that describe the migrations of African Americans in the nineteenth-century American West. Efforts to assemble collections of oral histories, images, diaries, and other written documents on the black experience in the Western United States and Canada have proven surprisingly fruitful, however, and the rewarding culmination of such research flourished in the archival images found in this second edition of John Ravage’s Black Pioneers.

Using public and private collections in every western state and in Canada, Ravage has gathered more than three hundred photographs, line drawings, lithographs, stereoviews, and other images. This new edition also adds sections on black entertainers and ranchers, a chapter on the dating of historic photographs and their genealogical significance, as well as an expanded bibliography. All aid understanding of the black frontier experience.

Ravage goes beyond the stereotypical photography of the era, which often reflected white fears and prejudices, to present the works of frontier photographers. Galveston’s Lucius Harper, Denver’s John Green, and the Northwest’s nomadic James Presley Ball all bring life to their subjects and meaning to their presence in the American West. Black Pioneers is a vibrant visual document of the profound influence blacks had on communal and frontier history.

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John W. Ravage is professor emeritus of mass media at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Television: The Directors Viewpoint and Singletree, and the editor of Kenneth Wiggins Porter’s The Negro on the American Frontier.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Utah Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 087480941X
• ISBN 13: 9780874809411
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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