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Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality
African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943
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2023
Summary
After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks continued to experience inequality in all phases of American life—social, cultural, political, and economic. In pursuit of equality, African American movements interpreted folklore to reveal in their rhetoric the soul of a race and a path toward civilization. This book provides a comprehensive chronicle of these competing initiatives and their reception starting with the folklore society organized by Hampton Institute in 1893 and continuing through the early 1940s with the American Negro Academy, Fisk University graduates, William Hannibal Thomas, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, the Friends of Negro Freedom, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and blacks associated with the Communist Party USA. Disavowing a culture of fear, money, guns, and death, black folklorists in these movements exposed a racial inner life ranging from loving, loyal, and happy to imitative, tragic, spiritual, emotional, and creative. Each characterization of the race justified a distinct path and possible contributions to civilization. If unable to know their past, members of the movements and other folklorists were fearful that African Americans would be an anomaly among humanity.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8613-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8614-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
392
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Folklore in Pursuit of Identity and Survival No access Pages 7 - 26
2. Folklore in Pursuit of Economic Equality No access Pages 27 - 64
3. Folklore in Pursuit of a Cultural Education No access Pages 65 - 90
4.Folklore in Pursuit of Political Equality No access Pages 91 - 142
5. Folklore in Pursuit of Loyalty No access Pages 143 - 198
6. Folklore in Pursuit of Nation-Building No access Pages 199 - 226
7. Folklore in Pursuit of Social Equality No access Pages 227 - 270
8. Folklore in Pursuit of Full Equality and Self-Determination No access Pages 271 - 310
