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020			_a9781621039785
020			_a1621039781
020			_z9781617038853 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_z1617038857 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_z1617038865 (ebook)
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050	0	0	_aGR111.A47 _bM66 2013
082	0	0	_a398.2089/96073 _2233
100	1		_aMoody-Turner, Shirley.
245	1	0	_aBlack folklore and the politics of racial representation _h[electronic resource] / _cShirley Moody-Turner.
260			_aJackson : _bUniversity Press of Mississippi, _c[2013] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 230 pages :) _billustrations ;
490	0		_aMargaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 200-216) and index.
505	0		_a"By Custom and By Law" : Folklore and the Birth of Jim Crow -- From Hawaii to Hampton : Samuel Armstrong and the Unlikely Origins of Folklore Studies at the Hampton Institute -- Recovering Folklore as a Site of Resistance : Anna Julia Cooper and the Hampton Folklore Society -- Uprooting the Folk : Paul Laurence Dunbar's Critique of the Folk Ideal -- "The Stolen Voice" : Charles Chesnutt, Whiteness, and the Politics of Folklore -- Conclusion.
520			_a"Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the meaning of the very folklore projects in which they were engaged. Shirley Moddy-Turner analyzes this output, along with the contributions of a disparate group of African American authors and scholars. She explores how black authors and folklorists were active participants--rather than passive observers--in conversations about the politics of representing black folklore. Examining literary texts, folklore documents, and cultural performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation demonstrates how folklore studies became a battleground across which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The study is framed by two questions of historical and continuing import. What role have representations of black folklore played in constructing racial identity? And, how have those ideas impacted the way African Americans think about and creatively engage black traditions? Moody-Turner renders established historical facts in a new light and context, taking figures we thought we knew--such as Charles Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, and paul Laurence Dunbar--and recasting their place in African American intellectual and cultural history" -- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xIntellectual life.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in literature.
650		0	_aFolklore in literature.
650		0	_aLiterature and folklore _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRace _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xRace identity.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xFolklore.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aMoody-Turner, Shirley. _tBlack folklore and the politics of racial representation _dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013] _z9781617038860 _w(DLC) 2013024094
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781621039785/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c33910 _d33910