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Long past slavery : representing race in the Federal Writers' Project / Catherine A. Stewart

Stewart, Catherine A. [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] [© 2016]

xv, 353 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm

Englisch

The passing away of the old time Negro: 200 folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930sCommitting 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-334) and index

1-4696-2626-8 ( : pbk); 978-1-4696-2626-0 ( : pbk)

978-1-4696-2627-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 1-4696-2627-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2015017267

OCoLC: 967908733     

OCoLC: 967908733 (aus SWB)     

NW 2708  | NW 8295      Ähnliche Literatur

E185.625

305.896/0730904 ; 305.8960730904

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*USA ; Schwarze ; Sklaverei ; Federal Writers' Project ; Ethnische Identität ; Erlebnisbericht      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Federal Writers' Project ; African Americans -- Psychology -- History -- 20th century ; Collective memory -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 20th century ; Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

The passing away of the old-time Negro: folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s -- Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the Federal Writers' Project, 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 pursuit of black folk culture -- The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the Federal Writers' Project -- 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