Black Cowboys, Intersectionality are Topics of Black History Month Lectures at DCCC
Delaware and Chester Counties, PA - February 3, 2025)—On the heels of Beyonce’s hit album “Cowboy Carter” (2024), and films such as Lil Nas X’s hit time-travel Western, Old Town Road (2019), and Idris Elba’s Concrete Cowboy (2021), Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Ron Tarver, MFA will discuss the enduring heritage of Black cowboys on Thursday, February 13 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Delaware County Community College’s Marple Campus (901 S. Media Line Road, Media, PA 19063).
Tarver is author of “The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America” (George F Thompson Publishing, 2024), a 30-year retrospective featuring ‘90s film images of Black cowboys and cowgirls of all ages; the thriving culture of Black-owned ranches and rodeo operations; Philadelphia’s Black urban cowboys; and more. The book highlights the trailblazers who are bringing wider recognition to Black cowboys for their vital role in American history and contemporary culture.
A staff photojournalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, Tarver won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and was nominated for three others while at the newspaper. Now a Swarthmore College professor, his work is included in the collections of the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. The event is free and open to the public, and also available via Livestream. For more information or to register, visit dccc.edu/cesj.
The lecture is the first of two Black History Month lectures at DCCC. The second lecture will be “Intersectionality: Understanding How a Person’s Identities Coincide with Each Other” on Tuesday, February 18 from 11 to 12 p.m., also at the Marple Campus. Durell M. Callier, Ph.D., associate professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware, will explore the topic of intersectionality, specifically the intersection of blackness and other identities.
Dr. Callier’s research documents, analyzes and interrogates the lived experience of Black youth and their communities. He is the author of two books as well as numerous scholarly articles. The event is free and open to the public, and also available via Livestream. For more information or to register, visit dccc.edu/cesj.
The events are part of DCCC’s annual signature “Dialogues for Diversity” speaker series, which is supported by the College’s Center for Equity and Social Justice.
