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Modern Black writers and the folk tradition [microform] / Susan Louise Blake.

Microform

1976.

1976

1 item

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FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro R-4264Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, by Joel Chandler Harris.

Book/Text

New York, F.A. Stokes Co., 1907.

1907

2 items

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Mules and men, by Zora Neale Hurston; with an introduction by Frank Boas; 10 ill. by Miguel Covarrubias.

Book/Text

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1935.

1935

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare F 81-24Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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Positively black [by] Roger D. Abrahams.

Book/Text

Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall [1970]

1970

1 item

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Mississippi Black folklore; a research bibliography and discography [by] William R. Ferris, Jr.

Book/Text

Hattiesburg, University and College Press of Mississippi [1971]

1971

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 72-18Item locationOffsite

Candle-lighting time in Bodidalee. Illustrated by Wallace Tripp. With a foreword by Alfred V. Frankenstein.

Book/Text

New York, American Heritage Press [1971]

1971

1 item

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Deep like the rivers; stories of my Negro friends.

Book/Text

Austin [Tex.] Encino Press, 1969.

1969

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The knee-high man, and other tales. Pictures by Ralph Pinto.

Book/Text

New York, Dial Press [1972]

1972

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The Urban experience and folk tradition. Edited by Américo Paredes and Ellen J. Stekert.

Book/Text

Austin, Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press [1971]

1971

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The knee-high man, and other tales. Pictures by Ralph Pinto.

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New York, Dial Press [1972]

1972

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Drums and shadows; survival studies among the Georgia coastal Negroes [by the] Savannah Unit, Georgia Writers' Project, Work Projects Administration. Foreword by Guy B. Johnson. Introd. to the Anchor ed. by Elliott P. Skinner.

Book/Text

Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, 1972.

1972

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Negro folklore from South Philadelphia, a collection and analysis.

Microform

[Philadelphia] University of Pennsylvania, 1961.

1962-1961

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The night riders: a study in the social control of the Negro.

Microform

[Bloomington, Ind.] 1967.

1967

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Mother wit from the laughing barrel; readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore.

Book/Text

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1972, c1973]

1972-1973

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 398-D (Dundes, A. Mother wit from the laughing barrel)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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American folklore & the historian [by] Richard M. Dorson.

Book/Text

Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1971]

1971

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 398.072-D (Dorson, R. American folklore & the historian)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Nights with Uncle Remus; myths and legends of the old plantation. With illus.

Book/Text

Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1883] Detroit, Republished by Singing Tree Press, 1971.

1971-1883

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 398-H (Harris, J. Nights with Uncle Remus. 1883)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Hoodoo--conjuration--witchcraft--rootwork; beliefs accepted by many Negroes and white persons, these being orally recorded among Blacks and whites.

Book/Text

[Hannibal, Mo., Printed by Western Pub.; distributed by American University Bookstore, Washington, 1970-74.

1970-1974

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The tie that binds: the function of folklore in the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Jean Toomer and Ralph Ellison.

Microform

Columbus, Ohio, 1973.

1973

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-809Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The conjure woman [micrform].

Microform

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1899.

1899

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-892Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Deep down in the jungle ...; Negro narrative folklore from the streets of Philadelphia [by] Roger D. Abrahams.1st rev. ed.

Book/Text

Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co. [1970]

1970

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 398-A (Abrahams, R. Deep down in the jungle. 1970)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Folk beliefs of the Southern Negro.

Book/Text

New York, Negro Universities Press [1975, c1926]

1975-1926

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FormatBook/TextCall numberHAER 75-638Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Mississippi Black folklore; a research bibliography and discography [by] William R. Ferris, Jr.

Book/Text

Hattiesburg, University and College Press of Mississippi [1971]

1971

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 016.39-F (Ferris, W. Mississippi Black folklore)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Nights with Uncle Remus; myths and legends of the old plantation. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin.

Book/Text

Detroit, Singing Tree Press, 1971 [c1883]

1971-1883

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FormatBook/TextCall numberHAER 75-332Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Night riders in Black folk history / by Gladys-Marie Fry.

Book/Text

[Knoxville, Tenn.] : University of Tennessee Press, [1975]

1975

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 917.503-F (Fry, G. Night riders in Black folk history)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Night riders in Black folk history / by Gladys-Marie Fry. 1st ed.

Book/Text

[Knoxville, Tenn.] : University of Tennessee Press, [1975]

1975

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIIR 75-2689Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Congaree sketches; scenes from Negro life in the swamps of the Congaree and tales by Tad and Scip of heaven and hell, with other miscellany, by Edward C. L. Adams. With an introd. by Paul Green. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1927.

Book/Text

New York, Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.

1971-1927

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FormatBook/TextCall numberHAER 77-491Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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African folklore in the New World / edited by Daniel J. Crowley.

Book/Text

Austin : University of Texas Press, c1977.

1977

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 77-227Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black culture and black consciousness : Afro-American folk thought from slavery to freedom / Lawrence W. Levine.

Book/Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. INCLUDES NEW PREFACE.

1977

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 07-2742Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Talking Black / by Roger D. Abrahams.

Book/Text

Rowley, Mass. : Newbury House Publishers, c1976.

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 78-256Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Shuckin' and jivin' : folklore from contemporary Black Americans / Daryl Cumber Dance.

Book/Text

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1978.

1978

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 78-419Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings; the folk-lore of the old plantation. With illus. by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

Book/Text

New York, D. Appleton, 1881 [c1880]

1881-1880

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberArents S 1361Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Folklore and myth in Ralph Ellison's early works / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung.

Book/Text

Stuttgart : Hochschulverlag, 1979.

1979

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 80-8227Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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A bibliography of North American folklore and folksong / by Charles Haywood.

Book/Text

New York: Greenberg, 1951.

1951

3 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 016.398-H (Haywood, C. Bibliography of North American folklore)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings. With a foreword by Marc Connelly and woodcuts by Seong Moy.

Book/Text

New York, Heritage Press [1957]

1957

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 81-101Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Folklore from Africa to the United States : an annotated bibliography / compiled by Margaret N. Coughlan.

Book/Text

Washington : Library of Congress : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976.

1976

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc *398.016-C (Coughlan, M. Folklore from Africa to the United States)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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Toting the lead row : Ruby Pickens Tartt, Alabama folklorist / Virginia Pounds Brown, Laurella Owens.

Book/Text

University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1981.

1981

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 82-96Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The world from Brown's Lounge : an ethnography of black middle-class play / Michael J. Bell.

Book/Text

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1983.

1983

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 83-109Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Hush, child! can't you hear the music? / collected by Rose Thompson ; edited by Charles Beaumont ; foreword by John Stewart.

Book/Text

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1982.

1982

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 83-104Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Little leather breeches, and other Southern rhymes : being a number of folk-lore songs, Negro rhymes, street-venders' cries, etc., gathered from various parts of the South / collected and arranged by Francis P. Wightman ; ill. by the author.

Book/Text

New York : J. F. Taylor, c1899.

1899

3 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare+ G 88-3Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNBW+ (Wightman, F. P. Little leather breeches)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberNBW+ (Wightman F. P. Little leather breeches)Item locationOffsite

Black Americans : biological facts and fancies / by Walter Gibson.

Book/Text

New York : Vantage Press, c1983.

1983

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 85-152Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Badmen, black and white [microform] : the continuity of American folk traditions / Frederick William Turner, III.

Microform

1965.

1965

1 item

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FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro R-4282Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Spirit world : pattern in the expressive folk culture of Afro-American New Orleans / photographs and journal by Michael P. Smith ; introd. by Nicholas R. Spitzer.

Book/Text

New Orleans : News Orleans Urban Folklife Society, 1984.

1984

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 85-24Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The sanctified church / Zora Neale Hurston.

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Berkeley, CA : Turtle Island Foundation (2845 Buena Vista Way), c1983.

1983

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 85-410Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Afro-American folktales : stories from Black traditions in the New World / selected and edited by Roger D. Abrahams.

Book/Text

New York : Pantheon Books, 1985.

1985

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 85-256Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Sources and analogues of the Uncle Remus tales / by Florence E. Baer.

Book/Text

Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1980.

1980

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 86-39Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Sources and analogues of the Uncle Remus tales / by Florence E. Baer.

Book/Text

Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1980.

1980

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFL 79-212 no. 225-229Item locationOffsite

Jump! : the adventures of Brer Rabbit / by Joel Chandler Harris ; adapted by Van Dyke Parks and Malcolm Jones ; illustrated by Barry Moser.

Book/Text

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1986.

1986

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 87-1Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The ex-slave narrative as a source for folk history [microform] / Kathryn Lawson Morgan.

Microform

1970.

1970

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-4358Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore : the folklore of North Carolina / collected by Dr. Frank C. Brown during the years 1912 to 1943 in collaboration with the North Carolina Folklore Society ... : general editor: Newman Ivey White ; associate editors: Henry M. Belden ... [et al.] ; Wood engravings by Clare Leighton.

Book/Text

Durham, N.C. : Duke Univ. Press, 1952-64.

1952-1964

11 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberHAER (Duke University. Durham. N.C. Library. Frank C. Brown collection of North Carolina folklore) v. 7 (1964)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Long gone : the Mecklenburg Six and the theme of escape in Black folklore / Daryl Cumber Dance.

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Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 87-774Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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