Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality
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Summary
A study in cultural politics, the book illustrates how nine black movements used competing interpretations of folklore to achieve racial identity and pursue equality in America during 50 years of Jim Crow, 1893–1943.
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Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality by Ronald Lamarr Sharps
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 life—social, 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.
Ronald LaMarr Sharps serves as associate dean of the College of the Arts at Montclair State University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781498586139 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498586139 |
| Title | Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality |
| Author | Ronald Lamarr Sharps |
| Series | Studies In Folklore And Ethnology: Traditions Practices And Identities |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Year published | 2023-06-16 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |