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Sarah Bird is the bestselling author of more than a dozen novels and essay collections. She is an NPR Moth storyteller, a winner of the Meryl Streep screenwriting competition, a Texas Institute of Letters Lifetime Achievement winner, an ALEX award winner, a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, a finalist for the Dublin International Literary Award, and the hologram greeter for the Austin Central Library. Demetrius Pearson is an associate professor of health and human performance at the University of Houston. His research focuses on sports history, and he is the author of Black Rodeo in the Texas Gulf Coast Region.
This kinetic collection of photos [Bird] took in 1970s Texas...documents the 'multisensory experience' of rodeos during Juneteenth celebrations...A jubilant celebration of a fascinating corner of American history. * Publishers Weekly * [Bird's] photos...offer a rare portrait of the jubilant and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. * Austin CultureMap * Gorgeous composition and loving frankness. * Axios Austin * She was looking for stories. She captured history. Bird would grow up to be a successful writer, not a photographer, but her early portraits are first-rate. * The Dallas Morning News * A handsome volume of photos and text...[Bird] puts the reader in the middle of the action, and provides rich, atmospheric descriptions of what she witnessed. * Chron *
