Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America

In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"--the ordinary men and women who make up black America--and asked them to define their culture. Their responses, recorded in Drylongso, are to American oral history what blues and jazz are to American music. If the people in William H. Johnson's and Jacob Lawrence's paintings could talk, this is what they would say.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Gwaltney, John Langston
Published: 04/01/1993
Publisher: New Press
ISBN: 9781565840805
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.45w x 0.88d