美国“牧牛王国”里的非裔牛仔

The African-American Cowboy in the Cattle Kingdom of the United States

在美国内战后的二十余年里,大平原上兴起了一个疆域辽阔的"牧牛王国"。美国这个新的畜产品生产基地是数万名牛仔艰辛开发西部边疆的成果。非裔牛仔是美国牛仔的重要组成部分。他们在牧场的劳作中,在牛道上长途驱赶牛群时,能胜任各个岗位的工作,且总承担白人牛仔不愿担当的最艰辛、最危险的任务。与白人牛仔相比,非裔牛仔更能苦练专业技能,与不同肤色的同伴合作共事并忠诚于雇主。虽然非裔牛仔做出了重要贡献,但"牧牛王国"并不是他们追求的"理想国"。在那里,仍然存在着对非裔牛仔的种族歧视和种族隔离。

20 years after the Civil War,there grew on the Great Plains a vast territory of the Cattle Kingdom.A new American livestock production base was constructed on the western frontier by the hard work of tens of thousands of pioneering cowboys.African-American cowboy was an important part of them.They,whether working in the pasture or driving cattle along the long trail,were capable of working in various positions,and always assumed the most difficult and most dangerous tasks the white cowboys were unwilling to take.Compared with whites,they took harder training,cooperated with companions of different colors and were loyalty to the employer.However,the cattle kingdom,to which they made an important contribution,was not their utopia.There they still had to face racial discrimination and racial segregation toward their group.