Juneteenth Rodeo
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Juneteenth Rodeo

  1. 145 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Juneteenth Rodeo

About this book

Award of Excellence ā€” Communication Arts 
Honorable Mention ā€” The International Photography Awards 2024 Book Category
Jury Top 5 Selection ā€” The International Photography Awards 2024 Book Category
Silver Winner in Zines And Photo Book/Cultureā€” 2024 International Film Photography Award, Analog Sparks

Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos.

Long before Americans began to officially commemorate Juneteenth, in the heat of East Texas, saddles were being cinched, buckles shined, and lassoes adjusted for a day on the Black rodeo circuit in honor of the holiday. In the late 1970s, as they had been doing for generations, Black communities across the region held local rodeos for the talented cowboys and cowgirls who were segregated from the mainstream circuit. It was to these vibrant community events that bestselling Texas writer Sarah Bird, then a young photojournalist, found herself drawn.

In Juneteenth Rodeo, Bird's lens celebrates a world that was undervalued at the time, capturing everything, from the moment the pit master fired up his smoker, through the death-defying rides, to the last celebratory dance at a nearby honky-tonk. Essays by Bird and sports historian Demetrius Pearson reclaim the crucial role of Black Americans in the Western US and show modern rodeo ridersā€”who still compete on today's circuitā€”as "descendants" in a more than two-hundred-year lineage of Black cowboys. A gorgeous tribute to the ropers and ridersā€”legends like Willie Thomas, Myrtis Dightman, Rufus Green, Bailey's Prairie Kid, Archie Wycoff, and Calvin Greeleyā€”as well as the secretaries, judges, and pick-up men and even the audience members who were as much family as fans, Juneteenth Rodeo ultimately seeks to put Black cowboys and cowgirls where they have always belonged: in the center of the frame.

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Information

Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781477329542
eBook ISBN
9781477329559
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Photography

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Prologue
  3. Center of the Frame
  4. Plates
  5. Afterword. Black Rodeo: A Brief History, by Demetrius W. Pearson
  6. Photo Captions
  7. Acknowledgments

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