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film

March 16, 2021

Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin Shine in Trailer for Netflix's 'Concrete Cowboy'

Kristen Santer Collider

The juxtaposition of cowboys with urban life is a unique spin on neo-westerns, particularly due to the lack of black representation in the genre.

books

December 25, 2019

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Los Angeles Review of Books

This book is "a radical, genre-defying examination of the lives of 'ordinary' young Black women" in the rapidly urbanizing USA of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, says this reviewer.

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