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The Man Who Adores the Negro. Race and American Folklore.
Patrick B. Mullen
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Description for The Man Who Adores the Negro. Race and American Folklore.
Paperback. The challenges of interracial fieldwork Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFHF; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 304.
Drawing on over thirty-five years of fieldwork, Patrick B. Mullen considers how African American cultural representations in folklore relate to racial dynamics in the United States. Providing insight into white folklorists\u2019 relationships with black consultants, The Man Who Adores the Negro describes the personal experiences of both fieldworkers and ethnographic subjects. Mullen explores how folklorists such as John Lomax, Newbell Niles Puckett, Alan Lomax, and Roger Abrahams have been implicated in creating the popular concept of African Americans as folk and how this depiction has created notions of blackness and whiteness. Illuminating central aspects of African American cultural history, the ... Read more
Drawing on over thirty-five years of fieldwork, Patrick B. Mullen considers how African American cultural representations in folklore relate to racial dynamics in the United States. Providing insight into white folklorists\u2019 relationships with black consultants, The Man Who Adores the Negro describes the personal experiences of both fieldworkers and ethnographic subjects. Mullen explores how folklorists such as John Lomax, Newbell Niles Puckett, Alan Lomax, and Roger Abrahams have been implicated in creating the popular concept of African Americans as folk and how this depiction has created notions of blackness and whiteness. Illuminating central aspects of African American cultural history, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252074868
SKU
V9780252074868
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About Patrick B. Mullen
Patrick Mullen is Emeritus Professor of English and Folklore at Ohio State University and author of Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly.
Reviews for The Man Who Adores the Negro. Race and American Folklore.
"Mullen's book will stimulate plenty of discussion... Highly recommended."
Choice "In The Man Who Adores the Negro, Mullen has written, essentially, two books. The first is a critical history of folklorists' work with African American informants-an account of the success, and failure, of well-intentioned scholars operating in a charged racial environment. And the second is a manual on ethnographic practice-a reflection ... Read more
Choice "In The Man Who Adores the Negro, Mullen has written, essentially, two books. The first is a critical history of folklorists' work with African American informants-an account of the success, and failure, of well-intentioned scholars operating in a charged racial environment. And the second is a manual on ethnographic practice-a reflection ... Read more