Language and Cultural Diversity in American EducationLike New. Same day shipping. Edited by Roger D. Abrahams, and Rudolph C. Troike...." the most important function of this anthology is the attempt to clear the air of stereotrypic misconceptions so that we can begin to put together an effective approach to educating students who happen to be different from the middle Americans for whom the education system was designed.."

Language and Cultural Diversity in American Education

Abrahams, Roger D.

Troike, Rudolph C. [Editors]

PRENTICE/HALL

“Impressive…A scrupulously researched work enlarging our understanding of an integral aspect of slave culture.”–-The Washington Post Book World What was it like to be a slave on a plantation of the antebellum South? How did the fiction of the happy slave and myth of the plantation “family” evolve? How did slaves create a performance style that unified them, while simultaneously entertaining and mocking the master? The answers to these questions may be found in the groundbreaking study of the corn-shucking ceremonies of the prewar South, where white masters played host to local slaves and watched their “guests” perform exuberant displays of singing and dancing. Drawing on the detailed written and oral histories of masters, slaves, and Northern commentators, distinguished folklorist Roger Abrahams peels through layers of racism and nostalgia surrounding this celebration to uncover its true significance in the lives and imagination of both blacks and whites – and in the evolution of an enduring African-American culture.

Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the PlantationSouth

History

Americas

Penguin??Books

Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia

  With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected and properly annotated. Much has been gathered and is now accessible through journals, archives, and lists. If a corpus of lore is not presented in some way, which bears new light on the process of word-of-mouth transmission, on traditional forms or expressions, or on the group among whom the lore was encountered, there is little reason to present it to the public.   This work represents an attempt to present a body of folklore collected among one small group of Black Americans in a neighborhood in South Philadelphia. The author's approach toward collection and presentation has been intensive. He has tried to collect "in depth," and to recreate in his presentation the social background in which the lore was found, and to relate the lore with the life and the values of the group.   Abraham's work is a departure from any past methods of analyzing folklore, and therefore a description of the author's point of view and his method will be given first. The majority of this work was written before his methodology was actually formulated. However throughout the project û the object was to illuminate as fully as possible the lore of one small group of African Americans from urban Philadelphia. The methodology, which developed, did so because of this objective more than anything else. Though the formulation of this theory may seem ex post facto, it is included because it clarified much during the rewritings of this book, and more importantly, because it will clarify many matters for the lay reader and for the professional folklorist.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Walter de Gruyter, Inc.

Collected jokes, toasts, and stories from the Northern ghetto, with descriptions of the personalities and styles of the tellers

Aldine de Gruyter

Deep Down in the Jungle...: Black American Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia

With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected and properly annotated. Much has been gathered and is now accessible through journals, archives, and lists. If a corpus of lore is not presented in some way, which bears new light on the process of word-of-mouth transmission, on traditional forms or expressions, or on the group among whom the lore was encountered, there is little reason to present it to the public. This work represents an attempt to present a body of folklore collected among one small group of Black Americans in a neighborhood in South Philadelphia. The author's approach toward collection and presentation has been intensive. He has tried to collect "in depth," and to recreate in his presentation the social background in which the lore was found, and to relate the lore with the life and the values of the group. Abraham's work is a departure from any past methods of analyzing folklore, and therefore a description of the author's point of view and his method will be given first. The majority of this work was written before his methodology was actually formulated. However throughout the project û the object was to illuminate as fully as possible the lore of one small group of African Americans from urban Philadelphia. The methodology, which developed, did so because of this objective more than anything else. Though the formulation of this theory may seem ex post facto, it is included because it clarified much during the rewritings of this book, and more importantly, because it will clarify many matters for the lay reader and for the professional folklorist.

Routledge

Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore;: Three essays on shantying in the West Indies (Publications of the American Folklore Society)

published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press

1969 Hardcover. VOLUME 20. Nicks and light creases on dust jacket. Clipped Flap. Minimal wear, no markings or highlights, otherwise nice clean copy.

Jump-rope rhymes, a dictionary (Publications of the American Folklore Society)

Reference

ORAL HERITAGE PRODUCTIONS

After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Ce

Yale University Press

After Africa

Yale Univ Pr

This addition to the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library completes Roger Abrahams's masterful survey of taletelling in the black world by showing the vital forms African stories took as they entered the New World. These 107 tales come from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. Throbbing with life, they range from earthy comedy (in recounting the scandalous doings of tricksters Rabbit and Fox) to inventive "just-so" stories explaining why the world is the way it is, to moral fables about encounters between masters and slaves, kings and servants, black and white. Together, they robustly demonstrate the ways an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their past to fashion a life -- and with it, a whole new and vital culture -- in the New World.

Afro-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

Demco Media

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