Long Past Slavery : Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project /

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
Autor principal: Stewart, Catherine A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Federal Writers' Project.
African Americans > Psychology.
African Americans > Race identity.
Collective memory.
Cultural pluralism.
Race relations.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Diversite culturelle > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Memoire collective > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Psychologie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cultural pluralism > United States > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Psychology > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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