Long past slavery : race and the Federal Writers' Ex-Slave Project during the New Deal / Catherine A. Stewart.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Catherine A. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Subjects:
African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Psychology > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > United States > History > 20th century.
Federal Writers' Project.
Cultural pluralism > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Psychology.
African Americans > Race identity.
Collective memory.
Cultural pluralism.
Race relations.
United States.
1900 - 1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 353 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The passing away of the old time Negro: 200 folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s
  • Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the FWP, the American guide, and representations of black identity
  • Out of the mouths of slaves: the Ex-Slave Project and the "Negro question"
  • Adventures of a ballad hunter: John Lomax and the folklorist as hero
  • The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the FWP
  • Conjure queen: Zora Neale Hurston and black folk culture
  • Follow me through Florida: Florida's Negro writers' unit, the Ex-Slave Project, and the Florida Negro
  • Rewriting the master('s) narrative: signifying in the ex-slave narratives
  • Freedom dreams: the last generation.