LEADER 04513nam 2200721 450 001 9910812779103321 005 20230126203555.0 010 $a1-62103-978-1 010 $a1-61703-885-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000001136057 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000234226 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181927 035 $a(OCoLC)848268205 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4977790 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181927 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10789481 035 $a(OCoLC)862939507 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4977790 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL535760 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001136057 100 $a20131114d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlack folklore and the politics of racial representation /$fShirley Moody-Turner 210 4$dİ2013 210 1$aJackson, Mississippi :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 230 pages) $cillustrations (black and white) 225 0 $aMargaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies 311 $a1-306-04509-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"By Custom and By Law" : Folklore and the Birth of Jim Crow -- From Hawaii to Hampton : Samuel Armstrong and the Unlikely Origins of Folklore Studies at the Hampton Institute -- Recovering Folklore as a Site of Resistance : Anna Julia Cooper and the Hampton Folklore Society -- Uprooting the Folk : Paul Laurence Dunbar's Critique of the Folk Ideal -- "The Stolen Voice" : Charles Chesnutt, Whiteness, and the Politics of Folklore -- Conclusion. 330 $a"Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the meaning of the very folklore projects in which they were engaged. Shirley Moddy-Turner analyzes this output, along with the contributions of a disparate group of African American authors and scholars. She explores how black authors and folklorists were active participants--rather than passive observers--in conversations about the politics of representing black folklore. Examining literary texts, folklore documents, and cultural performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation demonstrates how folklore studies became a battleground across which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The study is framed by two questions of historical and continuing import. What role have representations of black folklore played in constructing racial identity? And, how have those ideas impacted the way African Americans think about and creatively engage black traditions? Moody-Turner renders established historical facts in a new light and context, taking figures we thought we knew--such as Charles Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, and paul Laurence Dunbar--and recasting their place in African American intellectual and cultural history" --$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xFolklore 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aRace$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aLiterature and folklore$zUnited States 606 $aFolklore in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xFolklore. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aRace$xSocial aspects 615 0$aLiterature and folklore 615 0$aFolklore in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a398.2089/96073 700 $aMoody-Turner$b Shirley$01620992 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812779103321 996 $aBlack folklore and the politics of racial representation$93954096 997 $aUNINA