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Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America

Brand: New Press, The

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UPC:
9781565840805
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1993-04-01
Author:
John Langston Gwaltney
Language:
english
Edition:
New Press ed.
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In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of Core Black Peoplethe ordinary men and women who make up black Americaand 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.