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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"African American folklore."”.
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(Re)covering lost lore : folklore adaptations in Zora Neale Hurston and Gloria Naylor.
Though folklore is a knowledge-sharing, identity-forming practice that is utilized by a number of cultural groups, many scholars deride its emphasis on orality and storytelling. One reason may be that folklore practitioners are often members of marginalized cultures; for example both Zora Neale …
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The Same Old Blues Crap: Selling The Blues At Fat Possum Records
… a character that has served various purposes in African American folklore and culture since slavery, and leveraged this trope to sell its bluesmen using a minstrel caricature of the uneducated, violent, oppressed, oversexed black man. Matthew Johnson’s role as a white male label head selling …