Stewart, Catherine A.,

Long past slavery : race and the Federal Writers' Ex-Slave Project during the New Deal / Catherine A. Stewart. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [(c)2016.] - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The passing away of the old time Negro: 200 folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s -- Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the FWP, the American guide, and representations of black identity -- Out of the mouths of slaves: the Ex-Slave Project and the "Negro question" -- Adventures of a ballad hunter: John Lomax and the folklorist as hero -- The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the FWP -- Conjure queen: Zora Neale Hurston and black folk culture -- Follow me through Florida: Florida's Negro writers' unit, the Ex-Slave Project, and the Florida Negro -- Rewriting the master('s) narrative: signifying in the ex-slave narratives -- Freedom dreams: the last generation.



9781469628295 1469628295


Federal Writers' Project.


African Americans--Race identity--History--20th century.
African Americans--Psychology--History--20th century.
Collective memory--History--United States--20th century.
Cultural pluralism--History--United States--20th century.


United States--Race relations--History--20th century.


Electronic Books.

E185.625