A History of the African American Western with Mia Mask

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Nathaniel Worley sits down with Mia Mask, professor of film at Vassar College and author of Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film. They have an engaging conversation about the African American western hero within the larger context of film history. Mia Mask is the Mary Riepma Ross Professor of Film at Vassar College. She is the author of Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film. Mask edited the anthology Contemporary Black American Cinema, published by Routledge. She also published the jointly edited collection Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age (Bloomsbury). Her newest book is Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western.