ENGL 8800 / FOLK 8200 / WGSS 8920 / AAS 6015: The Sacred and Secular in Black Feminist Folklore: Arts & Humanities Resources

Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century southern writers to focus on three African Americans who possess the "power of the porch."

In A Dirty South Manifesto, L.H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resistance in the New South--a movement that is antiracist, decolonial, and transnational.

The vibrant humor of African American women is celebrated in this bold, unique, and comprehensive collection. Often hard-hitting, sometimes risque, always dramatic and eloquent.

Available in print and as an ebook. A ground breaking study of proverbs in African-American speech from slave times to the present.

Available in print and as an ebook. In this volume, Irma McClaurin has collected-for the first time-essays that explore the role and contributions of black feminist anthropologists.

The library has multiple copies/ editions of this title. 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.