Long past slavery race and the Federal Writers' Ex-Slave Project during the New Deal / Catherine A. Stewart.

Author/creator Stewart, Catherine A. author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Descriptionpages cm
Subjects
Federal Writers' Project.
African Americans--Race identity. --History. --20th century.
African Americans--Psychology. --History. --20th century.
Collective memory--United States. --History. --20th century.
Cultural pluralism--United States. --History. --20th century.
United States--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

Contents The passing away of the old time Negro: 200 folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s -- Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the FWP, the American guide, and representations of black identity -- Out of the mouths of slaves: the Ex-Slave Project and the "Negro question" -- Adventures of a ballad hunter: John Lomax and the folklorist as hero -- The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the FWP -- Conjure queen: Zora Neale Hurston and black folk culture -- Follow me through Florida: Florida's Negro writers' unit, the Ex-Slave Project, and the Florida Negro -- Rewriting the master('s) narrative: signifying in the ex-slave narratives -- Freedom dreams: the last generation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2015017267
ISBN9781469626260 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN1469626268 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN(ebook)
ISBN(ebook)

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Joyner General Stacks E185.625 .S763 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold