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From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore by Daryl Cumber Dance Synopsis This anthology collects a wealth of tales that have survived and been adapted over the years, many featuring characters (like Brer' Rabbit) from African culture, including everything from proverbs and recipes to folk songs and rumor. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments “ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments Recently discovered, this first new book to be published by the master of African-American folklore in more than fifty years features an abundance of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, that... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Afro-American folktales :stories from Black traditions in the New World by Roger D Abrahams Publisher Comments From the canefileds of the ante-bellum South, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an "incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition" (Choice... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson Publisher Comments Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero John Henry, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the first rail route through... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson Publisher Comments The story of John Henry, the mighty railroad man who has become a towering figure in American culture, is told in this portrait of the most recorded folk song in American history.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Night Riders in Black Folk History by Gladys Marie Fry Publisher Comments During and after the days of slavery in the United States, one way in which slaveowners, overseers, and other whites sought to control the black population was to encourage and exploit a fear of the supernatural. By planting rumors of evil spirits... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Libation: A Literary Pilgrimage Through the African-American Soul by Estella Conw Majozo Synopsis Libation explains how the cakewalk reaffirms connections with the past among African Americans; how its intricate patterns reflect the landscape of the American South and the pilgrimage of Black Americans from Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Tubman to... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $1.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston by John Bennett Publisher Comments Twice-told tales about historic Charleston and its African American community.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wings on My Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars by Howard W Odum Publisher Comments One of the few depictions of African Americans in World War I, Wings on My Feet (1929) follows the tale of Black Ulysses, John Wesley Left Wing Gordon, begun in Howard W. Odum's Rainbow Round My Shoulder (IUP, 2006). On one level, the novel continues a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black folktales by Julius Lester List Price $5.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Jump up & Say!: A Collection of Black Storytelling by Linda Goss List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Negro Folktales by Richard M Dorson Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African-American Literature by Gayl Jones List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans by Daryl Cumber Dance List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Treasury of Afro American Folklore the O by Harold Courlander Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Deep Down in the Jungle Negro Narrative Folklore From the Streets of Philadelphia by Roger D Abrahams Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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As We Lived: Stories Told by Black Story Tellers by Jakie L. Pruett Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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