{"id":33592,"date":"2011-03-10T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=33592"},"modified":"2013-11-14T04:31:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:31:47","slug":"black-men-and-women-of-the-old-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/10\/black-men-and-women-of-the-old-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Men and Women of the Old West"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the quintessential Old West “cowboy” is White in most imaginations, in fact there were Black pioneers in the west during the wild days (usually dated mid-1800s till the end of the century). \u00a0According to wikipedia<\/a>, thousands of Black men and women lived in mostly segregated communities in the West, but participated in all parts of Western society. \u00a0They were traders, gold miners, soldiers, cowboys and farm hands, bartenders, cooks, and, of course, outlaws. \u00a0 I enjoy how these photographs color American history:<\/p>\n

Identity unknown, around 1865, Kansas (source<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Nona Marshall, late 1800s, Arizona territory (source<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Black cowboys (1890-1920):<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the quintessential Old West “cowboy” is White in most imaginations, in fact there were Black pioneers in the west during the wild days (usually dated mid-1800s till the end of the century). \u00a0According to wikipedia, thousands of Black men and women lived in mostly segregated communities in the West, but participated in all parts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,3920,285,1760],"class_list":["post-33592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-nation-united-states","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33592"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59041,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592\/revisions\/59041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}