The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in litera

While challenging traditional postcolonial accounts, Gabay places racial anxiety at the heart of imaginaries of Africa and international order.

The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversit

2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Finalist Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reco

Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West—in other words, portrayal of the West