Drylongso

A Self-Portrait of Black America

John Langston Gwaltney author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The New Press

Published:13th May '93

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Drylongso cover

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.

"Powerful, eloquent, and—I hope—disturbing." —Studs Terkel

"This book is terrifying and illuminating. Not since the nineteenth-century slave narratives have so many black Americans told such truths to white America." —Maya Angelou

ISBN: 9781565840805

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 357g

320 pages