Black Culture and Black Consciousness
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
By Lawrence W. LevineWalter Webb heard similar lines in Texas that same year : “ When a woman's in trouble , she wring her hands and cry ; / But when a man's in trouble , it's a long freight - train and ride . ” Webb , JAF , 28 ( 1915 ) , 293 . 106.
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
By the late Lawrence W. LevineBruce Jackson, Wake Up Dead Man, 22-23. There is a great deal of testimony concerning the relative silence of whites as compared with blacks. See, for instance, Bruce Jackson's Wake Up Dead Man, xv, 18, 32; Peabody, JAF, 16 (1903), 152; ...
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
By Lawrence W. Levine'.....Through an exhaustive investigation of black songs, folk tales, proverbs, aphorisms, verbal games and the long narrative oral poems known as 'toasts, ' Levine argues that the value system of...
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
By the late Lawrence W. LevineThe free play has resulted in the very large number of songs which, though formed primarily in the white man's moulds, have lost all recognizable relationship to known whitesung melodic entities.”22 This debate over origins indicates ...
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
By Lawrence W. Levine... Deep Down in the Jungle , Chap . 2 ; in Philadelphia and Texas , Abra- hams , Positively Black , 39-42 ; in Chicago , Thomas Kochman , " Toward an Eth- nography of Black American Speech Behavior , " in Norman E. Whitten , Jr. , and John ...