Long past slavery :
Stewart, Catherine A.,
Long past slavery : race and the Federal Writers' Ex-Slave Project during the New Deal / Catherine A. Stewart. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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' memories were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society.
9781469628295 1469628295 9781469626277 1469626276
22573/ctt17rvvzs JSTOR 07657F3C-9853-447F-8B8F-2978B537857F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Federal Writers' Project.
Federal Writers' Project.
1900-1999
African Americans--Race identity--History--20th century.
African Americans--Psychology--History--20th century.
Collective memory--History--United States--20th century.
Cultural pluralism--History--United States--20th century.
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.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
E185.625 / .S763 2016eb
305.896/0730904
Long past slavery : race and the Federal Writers' Ex-Slave Project during the New Deal / Catherine A. Stewart. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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' memories were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society.
9781469628295 1469628295 9781469626277 1469626276
22573/ctt17rvvzs JSTOR 07657F3C-9853-447F-8B8F-2978B537857F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Federal Writers' Project.
Federal Writers' Project.
1900-1999
African Americans--Race identity--History--20th century.
African Americans--Psychology--History--20th century.
Collective memory--History--United States--20th century.
Cultural pluralism--History--United States--20th century.
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.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
E185.625 / .S763 2016eb
305.896/0730904