The Negro and His Folklore in 19th-Century Periodicals
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In the eyes of many white Americans, North and South, the Negro did not have a culture until the Emancipation Proclamation. With few exceptions, serious collecting of Negro folklore by whites did not begin until the Civil War-and it was to be another four decades before black Americans would begin to appreciate their own cultural heritage. Few of the earlier writers realized that they had observed and recorded not simply a manifestation of a particular...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0292755104
ISBN13:9780292755109
Release Date:January 1967
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:398 Pages
Weight:1.29 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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