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African American History - Social Aspects, North American Folklore & Mythology, African Americans - General & Miscellaneous, African Americans - Folklore & Mythology, African Americans - Social Conditions
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Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel

by Dundes, Alan
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Overview

Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black folk culture, here are more than sixty entertaining and informative articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience -- Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, and many others.

Drawn out of the deep, rich well of Afro-American culture, these essays convey the import of the black folk experience for all Americans.

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Book Details

Published
January 28, 1972
Publisher
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1972, c1973]
Pages
673
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780136030195

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