African Americans -- Folklore
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African Americans -- Folklore
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- Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Witcover
- Shuckin' and jivin' : folklore from contemporary Black Americans, Daryl Cumber Dance
- Jump! : the adventures of Brer Rabbit, by Joel Chandler Harris ; adapted by Van Dyke Parks and Malcolm Jones ; illustrated by Barry Moser
- When birds could talk & bats could sing, the adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and their friends, told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Barry Moser
- Uncle Remus, the complete tales, with a new introduction, as told by Julius Lester ; llustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Black folktales, Julius Lester ; illustrated by Tom Feelings ; with an introduction by the author
- Folklore, memoirs, and other writings, Zora Neale Hurston; [edited by Cheryl A. Wall]
- The contemporary African American novel, its folk roots and modern literary branches, Bernard W. Bell
- The book of Negro folklore / edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
- More tales of Uncle Remus : further adventures of Brer Rabbit, his friends, enemies, and others, as told by Julius Lester ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Sorrow's kitchen : the life and folklore of Zora Neale Hurston, Mary E. Lyons
- The days when the animals talked, Black American folktales and how they came to be, William J. Faulkner ; illustrations by Troy Howell
- The tales of Uncle Remus. The adventures of Brer Rabbit, as told by Julius Lester ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Bo Rabbit smart for true, tall tales from the Gullah, retold by Priscilla Jaquith ; drawings by Ed Young
- Conjuring the folk, forms of modernity in African America, David G. Nicholls
- Myths, legends, and folktales of America, an anthology, David Leeming and Jake Page
- Talking drums, reading and writing with African American stories, spirituals, and multimedia resources, Wanda Cobb Finnen
- The Invisible Princess, Faith Ringgold
- Howard W. Odum's folklore odyssey, transformation to tolerance through African American folk studies, Lynn Moss Sanders
- American Negro folklore, by J. Mason Brewer ; illustrated by Richard Lowe
- Black culture and Black consciousness, Afro-American folk thought from slavery to freedom, Lawrence W. Levine
- Langston Hughes, folk dramatist in the protest tradition, 1921-1943, Joseph McLaren ; foreword by Beth Turner ; afterword by James V. Hatch
- Moaning bones, African-American ghost stories, retold by Jim Haskins ; with illustrations by Felicia Marshall
- Whispers on the color line, rumor and race in America, Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner
- Black fairy, and other plays for children, Useni Eugene Perkins ; [illustrations by Patrick Hill]
- Zora Neale Hurston, the breath of her voice, Ayana I. Karanja
- Zora Neale Hurston : a storyteller's life, Janelle Yates ; with illustrations by David Adams
- I heard it through the grapevine, rumor in African-American culture, Patricia A. Turner
- The people could fly, American Black folktales, told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- Yo' mama!, new raps, toasts, dozens, jokes, and children's rhymes from urban Black America, edited by Onwuchekwa Jemie
- African American folklore, Stephen Currie
- African American folktales, stories from Black traditions in the New World, selected and edited by Roger D. Abrahams
- The people could fly, the picture book, Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- The people could fly, American Black folktales, told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- African-American folktales for young readers, including favorite stories from African and African-American storytellers, collected and edited by Richard Alan Young and Judy Dockrey Young
- Stagolee shot Billy, Cecil Brown
- Jump again! : more adventures of Brer Rabbit, by Joel Chandler Harris ; adapted by Van Dyke Parks ; illustrated by Barry Moser
- The annotated African American folktales, edited with a foreword, introduction, and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar
- A ring of tricksters, animal tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa, Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Barry Moser
- From my people, 400 years of African American folklore, edited by Daryl Cumber Dance
- Sure as sunrise, stories of Bruh Rabbit & his walkin' talkin' friends, Alice McGill ; illustrated by Don Tate
- The secret of the stones, an African-American folktale from Arkansas, retold by Robert D. San Souci ; pictures by James Ransome
- Wishbone, reference and interpretation in Black folk narrative, Laura C. Jarmon
- Brer Tiger and the big wind, by William J. Faulkner ; illustrated by Roberta Wilson
- The knee-high man, adapted by William Miller ; illustrated by Roberta Glidden
- The signifying monkey, a theory of African-American literary criticism, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- A son's return, selected essays of Sterling A. Brown, edited with a foreword by Mark A. Sanders
- Every tongue got to confess, Negro folk-tales from the Gulf states, Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by John Edgar Wideman ; edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan
- John Henry, an American legend, story and pictures by Ezra Jack Keats
- A treasury of Afro-American folklore, the oral literature, traditions, recollections, legends, tales, songs, religious beliefs, customs, sayings, and humor of peoples of African descent in the Americas, by Harold Courlander ; decorations by Enrico Arno
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