Whose Home on the Range? Finding Room for Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans in the Revisionist Western

Hoffman discusses a number of films that have tried to place Native Americans, African Americans and Latino Americans into frontier America, such as "Dances With Wolves," "Posse," and "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez." All three films revert to a more cynical strategy of...

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Published inMelus Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 45 - 59
Main Author Hoffman, Donald
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, etc The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 01.07.1997
Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Oxford University Press
Subjects
African American studies
African Americans
African Americans in motion pictures
American Indians
Ballads
Costner, Kevin
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans in motion pictures
Motion picture criticism
Motion pictures
Movies
Narratives
Native American dance
Native Americans
Portrayals
Social aspects
United States history
Van Peebles, Mario
Western films
Westerns
White people
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Summary:Hoffman discusses a number of films that have tried to place Native Americans, African Americans and Latino Americans into frontier America, such as "Dances With Wolves," "Posse," and "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez." All three films revert to a more cynical strategy of John Ford's "Stagecoach."
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ISSN:0163-755X
1946-3170
DOI:10.2307/468134