With Idris Elba’s new film about a black outlaw set for release, cowboy hats, fringing and boots are in style
Two years ago, wild-west style – dubbed the yee-haw agenda – exploded into the world like a glitter bomb. Led by the pop culture juggernaut that was Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road, the new trend was black, queer and subversive.
There was an authentic history to the black cowboy since one in eight cowboys were African American in the wild west, a fact lost to the segregated history books. In 2019, America was in the grip of Trump’s administration, deeply split into red and blue states, and yee-haw was a provocative bit of historical correction.
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