Book Review: Imagining the African American West

Authors

Jere W. Roberson, University of Central Oklahoma

Date of this Version

2006

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:3 (Summer 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Blake Allmendinger invites us into an old/new West that is not a place on a map, but rather a place in the psyche-always imagined, out there, over there, someplace, not here. He challenges us to cease thinking of the West only in geographic terms and to envision it as an image, this time with black figures in it and writing about it.