| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

Imagining the African American West. By Blake Allmendinger. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xix + 161 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, $49.95, 37.95.)

Blake Allmendinger's newest book provides fascinating studies penetrating literary, cinematic, and rap music genres focusing upon African Americans in the West during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Only African American works are considered for their portrayals of early frontier experiences and the urban West. Employing a literary lens to examine the historical background and literary conceptions of African Americans such as James Beckwourth and Oscar Micheaux, Allmendinger provides a rich archive of literature that considers the stake African Americans held in the frontier mythologies of the American West.

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