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In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"—the ordinary men and women who make up black America—and asked them to define their culture. Their responses, recorded in Drylongso, are to American oral history what blues and jazz are to American music. If the people in William H. Johnson's and Jacob Lawrence's paintings could talk, this is what they would say.




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Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America

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      Publisher: The New Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/05/1993
      ISBN13: 9781565840805, 978-1565840805
      ISBN10: 1565840801

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"—the ordinary men and women who make up black America—and asked them to define their culture. Their responses, recorded in Drylongso, are to American oral history what blues and jazz are to American music. If the people in William H. Johnson's and Jacob Lawrence's paintings could talk, this is what they would say.




      Trade Review
      "Powerful, eloquent, and—I hope—disturbing." —Studs Terkel

      "This book is terrifying and illuminating. Not since the nineteenth-century slave narratives have so many black Americans told such truths to white America." —Maya Angelou

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