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Embodied Memory and Alternative Futures

The Compton Cowboys’ Peace Ride

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Ruby Clementine Kernkamp
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Abstract

Through the Peace Ride, the Compton Cowboys, as activists and performance artists within the Black Lives Matter movement, materialized the long legacy of Black men and women riders in the United States. These protest bodies on horseback imagine alternative futures for Black communities through embodied memory and a rewriting of the archive.

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Critical Acts
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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 157 - 162
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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