Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality (eBook)

African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893-1943

Ronald LaMarr Sharps (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
386 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8614-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 lifesocial, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American folklore • African Culture • american folklore • American Negro Academy • Anglo-Saxon Clubs • black folklore movements • Chicago World’s Fair • Cultural Politics • fisk university • folklore and Communism • folklore and equality • folklore and freedom • folklore and identity • folklore and self-determination • folklore and shame • folklore and sociology • Hampton Folklore Society • Jim Crow • racial suicide • racial survival • the Garvey movement • white folklore • William Hannibal Thomas
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8614-7 / 1498586147
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8614-6 / 9781498586146