Mother wit from the laughing barrel;: Readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore

Race Pride & Folklore / Newbell Niles Puckett -- As Crinkly As Yours / Eldridge Cleaver -- My People! My People! / Zora Neale Hurston -- Negro Folk Cult / Harold Preece -- Backgrounds Of Folklore In Negro Literature / Sterling A. Brown -- Negro Writer In America : An Exchange : Folk Tradition / Stanley Edgar Hyman ; Change The Joke & Slip The Yoke / Ralph Ellison -- Negro-white Spiritual / D.k. Wilgus -- African Influence On The Music Of The Americas / Richard Alan Waterman -- Residual African Elements In The Blues / Janheinz Jahn -- Jazz Choreology / Gertude P. Kurath & Nadia Chilkovsky -- African Tales Among The North American Indians / Alan Dundes. Problems Confronting The Investigator Of Gullah / Lorenzo D. Turner -- Americanisms That May Once Have Been Africanisms / David Dalby -- Designations For Colored Folk / H.l. Mencken -- Names Of American Negro Slaves -- On The Grammer Of Afro-american Naming Practices / J.l. Dillard -- Black Ulysses In Camp / Howard W. Odum -- Dialogues Of The Old & The New Porter / A. Philip Randolph -- Technique Of Jive / Dan Burley -- Story In Harlem Slang / Zora Neale Hurston -- Language Of Soul / Claude Brown -- Hidden Language : Ghetto Children Know What They're Talking About / John M. Brewer -- Old-time Negro Proverbs / J. Mason Brewer -- Old-time Courtship Conversation / Frank D. Banks & Portia Smiley -- Double Meaning In The Popular Negro Blues / Guy B. Johnson. I Can Peep Through Muddy Water & Spy Dry Land : Boasts In The Blues / Mimi Clar Melnick -- The Dozens : Dialectic Of Insult / J. Dollard -- Playing The Dozens / R.d. Abrahams -- Signifying / C. Mitchell-kernan -- Toasts / W. Labov, P. Cohen, C. Robins, & J. Lewis -- Meet Mr. Franklin : An Example Of Usage / Nathan & Joanne Kantrowitz -- Street Smarts / H. Rap Brown -- Conjuring & Conjure-doctors / L. Herron & A.m. Bacon -- Superstitions & Folklore Of The South / C.w. Chesnutt -- Braziel Robinson Possessed Of Two Spirits / R. Steiner -- Mojo / Ruth Bass -- Little Man / R. Bass -- Human Hand Threat / A.p. Randolph -- Contemporary Patterns Of Malign Occultism Among Negroes In North Carolina / Norman E. Witten -- Symbiosis : Case Of Hoodoo & The Numbers Racket / G.j. Mccall -- Romance Of The Negro Folk Cry In America / W.l. James -- Negro Shouts From Georgia / R.w. Gordon -- Social Implications Of The Negro Spiritual / J. Lovell -- Follow The Drinking Gourd / H.b. Parks -- I Got The Blues / A. Lomax -- Protest & Irony In Negro Folksong / R. Ames -- Social Influences On Jazz Style : Chicago, 1920-30 / C. Hansen -- Acculturation Of The Delta Negro / S.c. Adams --uncle Remus & The Malevolent Rabbit / B. Wolfe. High John De Conquer / Z.n. Hurston -- Negro Humor : John & Old Master / H. Oster -- Steel Drivin' Man / L.r. Harris -- Career Of John Henry / R.m. Dorson -- Ba-ad Nigger / H.c. Brearley -- Ghostly Legend Of The Ku-klux Klan / H.g. Mcwhiney & F.b. Simkins -- Caddy Buffers : Legends Of A Middle-class Negro Family In Philadelphia / K.l. Morgan -- Frontiers Of Humor : American Vernacular Dance / Marshall & Jean Stearns -- Humor As A Technique In Race Conflict / J.h. Burma -- Jokes Among Southern Negroes : The Revelation Of Conflict / A.j. Prange, Jr. & M.m. Vitols -- Jokes Negroes Tell On Themselves / L. Hughes -- Genital Superiority In Oakland Negro Folklore A Theme / N.a. Eddington -- Jokes & Black Consciousness : A Collections With Interviews / P. Cross -- Suggestions For Further Reading In American Negro Folklore. Includes Bibliographical References.