A01=John Langston Gwaltney
African American studies
anthropology
Author_John Langston Gwaltney
black life
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definition of black culture
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oral history
ordinary black Americans
self-portrait of black America
Product details
- ISBN 9781565840805
- Weight: 357g
- Dimensions: 139 x 209mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 1993
- Publisher: The New Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
John Langston Gwaltney was a student of Dr. Margaret Mead, before becoming a Professor of Anthropology. He has taught at the State University of New York at Cortland and at the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is also a visual artist, with a special interest in ritual carving.
