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Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America

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Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America - Gwaltney, John Langston
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In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America , anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"-the ordinary men and women who make up black America-and asked them to define their culture. Their responses, recorded in Drylongso , are to American oral history what blues and jazz are to American music. If the people in William H. Johnson's and Jacob Lawrence's paintings could talk, this is what they would say.

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Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America 1993, New Press, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781565840805

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