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

From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. In this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stewart, Catherine A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Temas:
Federal Writers' Project.
Federal Writers' Project
1900-1999
African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Psychology > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > United States > History > 20th century.
Cultural pluralism > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Psychologie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mémoire collective > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Diversité culturelle > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Race relations
Cultural pluralism
Collective memory
African Americans > Race identity
African Americans > Psychology
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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