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By Custom And By Law: Black Folklore And Racial Representation At The Birth Of Jim Crow, Shirley Moody
By Custom And By Law: Black Folklore And Racial Representation At The Birth Of Jim Crow, Shirley Moody
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By Custom and By Law: Black Folklore and Racial Representation at the Birth of Jim Crow establishes folklore as a contested site in the construction of racial identity during the emergence and solidification of legalized racial segregation at the end of the nineteenth century. By examining institutional interests, popular culture performances, and political rhetoric, I demonstrate how representations of black folklore played a seminal role in perpetuating a public discourse of racial difference. Alternately, my work introduces new scholarship examining the counter-narratives posed by nineteenth-century African American scholars, writers and folklorists who employed folklore in their various academic works and …