WEEK ONE

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For the first blog, I decided on Rory Doyle His photo series Delta Hill Riders focuses on African-American cowboy culture on the Mississippi Delta. His series serves as not only a glimpse in the lives of these modern-day cowboys, but it serves as an obstructor to negative stereotypes that are often associated with young Black men. Not only does his photo series challenges prejudice and stereotypes it aims to educate its viewers on a forgotten and hidden part of American History. When we typically think of what a cowboy is "traditionally" supposed to look like we immediately think a white guy on the back of a white horse, saving some white woman. When in fact majority of cowboys where in fact black, yet for some reason America never really gave us our credit ( Gee, I wonder why?) , What I personally interpret this series as a fuck you to anyone decided to box us into certain categories, and choose to overlook and dismiss Black people when we decide to things outside of the box and discourage us from pushing boundaries. The Delta Hill Riders series shouts that not only where we the main ones living this cowboy lifestyle, but we still keep it alive and refuse to let it die.