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0.29 Shane White, A Question of Style Blacks in and around New York City in the Late 18th Century, The Journal of American Folklore, 1989.
0.28 John Solomon Otto Augustus M. Burns, The Use of Race and Hillbilly Recordings as Sources for Historical Research: The Problem of Color Hierarchy among Afro-Americans in the Early Twentieth Century, The Journal of American Folklore, 1972.
0.28 William A. Dobak, White Southern and Other Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, The Journal of American Folklore, 1973.
0.26 Derek Collins, The Myth and Ritual of Ezili Freda in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Western Folklore, 1996.
0.25 William D. Piersen, An African Background for American Negro Folktales?, The Journal of American Folklore, 1971.
0.24 Robert C. Toll, From Folktype to Stereotype: Images of Slaves in Antebellum Minstrelsy, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1971.
0.24 Audrey Elisa Kerr, The Paper Bag Principle: Of the Myth and the Motion of Colorism, The Journal of American Folklore, 2005.
0.24 Robin Lucy, "Flying Home": Ralph Ellison Richard Wright and the Black Folk during World War II, The Journal of American Folklore, 2007.
0.24 Edmund T. Gordon Mark Anderson, The African Diaspora: Toward an Ethnography of Diasporic Identification, The Journal of American Folklore, 1999.
0.24 Ray Allen, An American Folk Opera? Triangulating Folkness Blackness and Americaness in Gershwin and Heyward's "Porgy and Bess", The Journal of American Folklore, 2004.
0.23 Kenneth W. Clarke, A Note on the Review of American Folklore, The Journal of American Folklore, 1962.
0.23 Patrick B. Mullen, The Dilemma of Representation in Folklore Studies: The Case of Henry Truvillion and John Lomax, Journal of Folklore Research, 2000.
0.22 Rosan Augusta Jordan Frank De Caro, "In This Folk-Lore Land": Race Class Identity and Folklore Studies in Louisiana, The Journal of American Folklore, 1996.
0.22 Marshall Fishwick, Uncle Remus vs John Henry: Folk Tension, Western Folklore, 1961.
0.21 John Cowley, Shack Bullies and Levee Contractors: Bluesmen as Ethnographers, Journal of Folklore Research, 1991.
0.21 Nicholas R. Spitzer, Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures, The Journal of American Folklore, 2003.
0.21 Shane Bernard Julia Girouard, "Colinda": Mysterious Origins of a Cajun Folksong, Journal of Folklore Research, 1992.
0.21 Kenneth W. Porter, A Legend of the Biloxi, The Journal of American Folklore, 1946.
0.21 John Michael Vlach, Afro-American Folk Crafts in Nineteenth Century Texas, Western Folklore, 1981.
0.21 Lori Ann Garner, Representations of Speech in the WPA Slave Narratives of Florida and the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Western Folklore, 2000.
0.21 Susan Meisenhelder, Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, The Journal of American Folklore, 1996.
0.21 William M. Clements, The "Offshoot" and the "Root": Natalie Curtis and Black Expressive Culture in Africa and America, Western Folklore, 1995.
0.21 Karl G. Heider, The Gamecock the Swamp Fox and the Wizard Owl: The Development of Good Form in an American Totemic Set, The Journal of American Folklore, 1980.
0.21 Alan Dundes, "Jumping the Broom": On the Origin and Meaning of an African American Wedding Custom, The Journal of American Folklore, 1996.
0.20 John F. Szwed, Metaphors of Incommensurability, The Journal of American Folklore, 2003.
0.20 Louis N. Feipel, Semihomonymous Child-Naming, Western Folklore, 1948.
0.20 Keith Walters, "He Can Read My Writing but He sho' Can't Read My Mind": Zora Neale Hurston's Revenge in Mules and Men, The Journal of American Folklore, 1999.
0.20 Robert Baron, Amalgams and Mosaics Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization, The Journal of American Folklore, 2003.
0.20 Patrick B. Mullen, A Word of Introduction: Collaborative Research in Context, Journal of Folklore Research, 2000.
0.20 Leigh Anne Duck, "Rebirth of a Nation": Hurston in Haiti, The Journal of American Folklore, 2004.
0.19 Elaine J. Lawless, "Reciprocal" Ethnography: No One Said It Was Easy, Journal of Folklore Research, 2000.
0.19 Simon J. Bronner, "Gombo" Folkloristics: Lafcadio Hearn's Creolization and Hybridization in the Formative Period of Folklore Studies, Journal of Folklore Research, 2005.
0.19 Charles D. Peavy, Faulkner's Use of Folklore in The Sound and the Fury, The Journal of American Folklore, 1966.
0.19 Patricia A. Turner, Pots Kettles and Interpretations of Blackness, Western Folklore, 2002.
0.19 Jerrold Hirsch, Modernity Nostalgia and Southern Folklore Studies: The Case of John Lomax, The Journal of American Folklore, 1992.
0.19 Mark P. Leone Gladys-Marie Fry, Conjuring in the Big House Kitchen: An Interpretation of African American Belief Systems Based on the Uses of Archaeology and Folklore Sources, The Journal of American Folklore, 1999.
0.18 Shane White, Pinkster: Afro-Dutch Syncretization in New York City and the Hudson Valley, The Journal of American Folklore, 1989.
0.18 Kenneth W. Porter, Willie Kelley of the Lost Nigger Mine, Western Folklore, 1954.
0.18 , Indian Witchcraft, The Journal of American Folklore, 1921.
0.18 William G. McLoughlin, A Note on African Sources of American Indian Racial Myths, The Journal of American Folklore, 1976.
0.18 Rosemary V. Hathaway, The Unbearable Weight of Authenticity: Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and a Theory of "Touristic Reading", The Journal of American Folklore, 2004.
0.18 Sw. Anand Prahlad, Africana Folklore: History and Challenges, The Journal of American Folklore, 2005.
0.18 Heli Chatelain, African Races, The Journal of American Folklore, 1894.
0.18 Robert Hemenway, The Functions of Folklore in Charles Chesnutt's "The Conjure Women", Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1976.
0.17 John W. Ashton, Voodooism in the Schools, Western Folklore, 1959.
0.17 , Erratum: American Talkers: Expressive Styles and Occupational Choice, The Journal of American Folklore, 1983.
0.17 Richard M. Dorson, African and Afro-American Folklore: A Reply to Bascom and Other Misguided Critics, The Journal of American Folklore, 1975.
0.17 John W. Roberts, Joning: An Afro-American Verbal Form in St Louis, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1982.
0.17 Richard M. Dorson, The Career of "John Henry", Western Folklore, 1965.
0.17 David B. Coplan, Ideology and Tradition in South African Black Popular Theater, The Journal of American Folklore, 1986.
0.17 Hubert Locke, [The Negro Stereotype: Negro Folklore and the Riots]: Prepared Comments, The Journal of American Folklore, 1970.
0.17 Roland Steiner, "Seeking Jesus" A Religious Rite of Negroes in Georgia, The Journal of American Folklore, 1901.
0.17 Janet L. Langlois, The Belle Isle Bridge Incident: Legend Dialectic and Semiotic System in the 1943 Detroit Race Riots, The Journal of American Folklore, 1983.
0.17 Loudell F. Snow, Mail Order Magic: The Commerical Exploitation of Folk Belief, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1979.
0.16 Lawrence W. Levine, Jazz and American Culture, The Journal of American Folklore, 1989.
0.16 John W. Roberts, African American Diversity and the Study of Folklore, Western Folklore, 1993.
0.16 S. J. Sackett, The White Negro, Western Folklore, 1972.
0.16 Patrick B. Mullen, Collaborative Research Reconsidered, Journal of Folklore Research, 2000.
0.16 Joe dan Boyd, Judge Jackson: Black Giant of White Spirituals, The Journal of American Folklore, 1970.
0.16 Jacqueline Fulmer, "Men Ain't All": A Reworking of Masculinity in Tales from the Hood or Grandma Meets the Zombie, The Journal of American Folklore, 2002.
0.16 Emma M. Backus, Negro Hymn from Georgia, The Journal of American Folklore, 1897.
0.16 Henry A. Kmen, Old Corn Meal: A Forgotten Urban Negro Folksinger, The Journal of American Folklore, 1962.
0.16 Hubert H. S. Aimes, African Institutions in America, The Journal of American Folklore, 1905.
0.16 , Negro Genius, The Journal of American Folklore, 1905.
0.16 Melvin Wade, "Shining in Borrowed Plumage": Affirmation of Community in the Black Coronation Festivals of New England (c 1750-c 1850), Western Folklore, 1981.
0.16 William R. Ferris_ Jr., Black Prose Narrative in the Mississippi Delta: An Overview, The Journal of American Folklore, 1972.
0.16 Cheryl L. Keyes, Empowering Self Making Choices Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance, The Journal of American Folklore, 2000.
0.16 Gary Alan Fine, Rumors of Apartheid: The Ecotypification of Contemporary Legends in the New South Africa, Journal of Folklore Research, 1992.
0.16 John Solomon Otto, Traditional Cattle-Herding Practices in Southern Florida, The Journal of American Folklore, 1984.
0.15 Jeffrey Hadler, Remus Orthography: The History of the Representation of the African-American Voice, Journal of Folklore Research, 1998.
0.15 Frank de Caro, On "Remus Orthography", Journal of Folklore Research, 1999.
0.15 Michael Edward Bell, Harry Middleton Hyatt's Quest for the Essence of Human Spirit, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1979.
0.15 Claude F. Jacobs, Spirit Guides and Possession in the New Orleans Black Spiritual Churches, The Journal of American Folklore, 1989.
0.15 , Folk-Lore Scrap-Book, The Journal of American Folklore, 1897.
0.15 Teri Klassen, Representations of African American Quiltmaking: From Omission to High Art, The Journal of American Folklore, 2009.
0.15 John R. Rickford Angela E. Rickford, Cut-Eye and Suck-Teeth: African Words and Gestures in New World Guise, The Journal of American Folklore, 1976.
0.15 Do Veanna S. Fulton, Comic Views and Metaphysical Dilemmas: Shattering Cultural Images through Self-Definition and Representation by Black Comediennes, The Journal of American Folklore, 2004.
0.15 Joan M. Fayer Joan F. McMurray, The Carriacou Mas' as "Syncretic Artifact", The Journal of American Folklore, 1999.
0.15 David Steven Cohen, The Origin of the "Jackson Whites": History and Legend among the Ramapo Mountain People, The Journal of American Folklore, 1972.
0.15 Bernhard Ostendorf, Ralph Ellison's "Flying Home": From Folk Tale to Short Story, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1976.
0.15 Marcia Gaudet, "Mardi Gras Chic-a-la-Pie:" Reasserting Creole Identity Through Festive Play, The Journal of American Folklore, 2001.
0.14 H. Carrington Bolton, Gombay a Festal Rite of Bermudian Negroes, The Journal of American Folklore, 1890.
0.14 William Ferris, Vision in Afro-American Folk Art: The Sculpture of James Thomas, The Journal of American Folklore, 1975.
0.14 H. Carrington Bolton, Decoration of Graves of Negroes in South Carolina, The Journal of American Folklore, 1891.
0.14 Wolfgang Mieder, "Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You": Frederick Douglass's Proverbial Struggle for Civil Rights, The Journal of American Folklore, 2001.
0.14 Norman E. Whitten_ Jr., Contemporary Patterns of Malign Occultism among Negroes in North Carolina, The Journal of American Folklore, 1962.
0.14 Roland B. Dixon, The Color-Symbolism of the Cardinal Points, The Journal of American Folklore, 1899.
0.14 Edgar Rogie Clark, Negro Folk Music in America, The Journal of American Folklore, 1951.
0.14 D. K. Wilgus, "I Learned about Women from Her", The Journal of American Folklore, 1973.
0.13 John M. Hellmann_ Jr., "I'm a Monkey": The Influence of the Black American Blues Argot on the Rolling Stones, The Journal of American Folklore, 1973.
0.13 Claude F. Jacobs, Folk for Whom? Tourist Guidebooks Local Color and the Spiritual Churches of New Orleans, The Journal of American Folklore, 2001.
0.13 S. J. Sackett, Proverbial Comparisons from Western Kansas, Western Folklore, 1960.
0.13 Arnold Pilling Abrahams Herbert Bracken Locke Leslie Shepard Aili Johnson Leonard Moss Dubarry Weymer, [The Negro Stereotype: Negro Folklore and the Riots]: Discussion from the Floor, The Journal of American Folklore, 1970.
0.13 George Carey, A Further Note on the Singing-Stammering Seaman, Western Folklore, 1976.
0.13 Walter Pitts, Like a Tree Planted by the Water: The Musical Cycle in the African-American Baptist Ritual, The Journal of American Folklore, 1991.
0.13 Hagar Salamon, Blackness in Transition: Decoding Racial Constructs through Stories of Ethiopian Jews, Journal of Folklore Research, 2003.
0.13 Sandra Dolby-Stahl, Literary Objectives: Hurston's Use of Personal Narrative in "Mules and Men", Western Folklore, 1992.
0.13 Jane C. Beck, The West Indian Supernatural World: Belief Integration in a Pluralistic Society, The Journal of American Folklore, 1975.
0.13 Gene Bluestein, America's Folk Instrument: Notes on the Five-String Banjo, Western Folklore, 1964.
0.13 Richard M. Dorson, More Tales of John Blackamore, Western Folklore, 1954.
0.13 Nathan Hurvitz, Blacks and Jews in American Folklore, Western Folklore, 1974.
0.13 Arthur Palmer Hudson, "Vandy Vandy" Again, The Journal of American Folklore, 1962.
0.13 Carl Lindahl, "Skallbone" "The Old Coon" and the Persistence of Specialized Fantasy, Western Folklore, 1982.
0.13 Fred Kniffen, Geographic Sayings from Louisiana, The Journal of American Folklore, 1954.
0.12 John F. Szwed, Musical Adaptation among Afro-Americans, The Journal of American Folklore, 1969.
0.12 Jay Mechling, The Failure of Folklore in Richard Wright's Black Boy, The Journal of American Folklore, 1991.
0.12 Roger D. Abrahams, Questions of Criolian Contagion, The Journal of American Folklore, 2003.
0.12 Leslie Spier, Addenda to Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, The Journal of American Folklore, 1943.
0.12 Alton C. Morris, Lord Derwentwater Child 208, The Journal of American Folklore, 1934.
0.12 Stephen Alan Barnett, White Dozens and Bad Sociology, The Journal of American Folklore, 1967.
0.12 Wayland D. Hand Frances M. Tally, Superstition Custom and Ritual Magic: Harry M Hyatt's Approach to the Study of Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1979.
0.12 E. C. P., "Tar Baby", The Journal of American Folklore, 1922.
0.12 Nolan Porterfield, Telling the Whole Story: Biography and Representation, Journal of Folklore Research, 2000.
0.12 W. K. McNeil, Lafcadio Hearn American Folklorist, The Journal of American Folklore, 1978.
0.12 John Minton, Creole Community and "Mass" Communication: Houston Zydeco as a Mediated Tradition, Journal of Folklore Research, 1995.
0.12 Kenneth Porter, Racism in Children's Rhymes and Sayings Central Kansas 1910-1918. Western Folklore, 1965,
0.12 Roger D. Abrahams, The Negro Stereotype: Negro Folklore and the Riots, The Journal of American Folklore, 1970.
0.11 Helen Louise Taylor Rebecca Wolcott, Items from New Castle Delaware, The Journal of American Folklore, 1938.
0.11 Carl Lindahl, A Note on the Festive Cultural and Geographic Range of This Issue, The Journal of American Folklore, 2001.
0.11 Patrick B. Mullen, A Negro Street Performer: Tradition and Innovation, Western Folklore, 1970.
0.11 Ana C. Cara, The Poetics of Creole Talk: Toward an Aesthetic of Argentine Verbal Art, The Journal of American Folklore, 2003.
0.11 Helen A. Regis Shana Walton, Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, The Journal of American Folklore, 2008.
0.11 Heli Chatelain, Some Causes of the Retardation of African Progress, The Journal of American Folklore, 1895.
0.11 Robert Hitchman, Color Names Surnames and Place Names, Western Folklore, 1950.
0.11 , Archive of American Folk Song, The Journal of American Folklore, 1943.
0.11 Richard M. Dorson, Folklore and Literature: A Comment, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1977.
0.11 Robert Duncan Bass, Negro Songs from the Pedee Country, The Journal of American Folklore, 1931.
0.11 J. Russell Reaver, Mythic Motivation in Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", Western Folklore, 1968.
0.11 W. W. Newell, Reports of Voodoo Worship in Hayti and Louisiana, The Journal of American Folklore, 1889.
0.11 Patricia A. Turner, Church's Fried Chicken and The Klan: A Rhetorical Analysis of Rumor in the Black Community, Western Folklore, 1987.
0.11 Jesse G. Truvillion, Singing a New Song: Notes on Redemption, Journal of Folklore Research, 2000.
0.11 Edward D. Seeber, Critical Views on Logan's Speech, The Journal of American Folklore, 1947.
0.11 David J. Winslow, A Negro Corn-Shucking, The Journal of American Folklore, 1973.
0.11 George A. Barton, Sacrifice among the Wakamba in British East Africa, The Journal of American Folklore, 1899.
0.11 Muriel Davis Longini, Folk Songs of Chicago Negroes, The Journal of American Folklore, 1939.
0.11 Elsie Clews Parsons, Spirituals from the "American" Colony of Samana Bay Santo Domingo, The Journal of American Folklore, 1928.
0.11 Mimi Clar, Folk Belief and Custom in the Blues, Western Folklore, 1960.
0.11 Marcia Gaudet, Bouki the Hyena in Louisiana and African Tales, The Journal of American Folklore, 1992.
0.10 Pertev N. Boratav W. Eberhard, The Negro in Turkish Folklore, The Journal of American Folklore, 1951.
0.10 John Greenway, Signs of Death in Hollywood, Western Folklore, 1961.
0.10 Beverly J. Robinson, Faith Is the Key and Prayer Unlocks the Door: Prayer in African American Life, The Journal of American Folklore, 1997.
0.10 Roland Steiner, Observations on the Practice of Conjuring in Georgia, The Journal of American Folklore, 1901.
0.10 Douglas Taylor, Tales and Legends of the Dominica Caribs, The Journal of American Folklore, 1952.
0.10 Julien A. Hall, Negro Conjuring and Tricking, The Journal of American Folklore, 1897.
0.10 Jane C. Beck, The Implied Obeah Man, Western Folklore, 1976.
0.10 Charles G. Rowe Auguste Horth, Dolos: Creole Proverbs of French Guiana, The Journal of American Folklore, 1951.
0.10 Lawrence E. Gary, [The Process of Cultural Stripping and Reintegration: The Rural Migrants in the City]: Prepared Comments, The Journal of American Folklore, 1970.
0.10 Roger Abrahams, [The Negro Stereotype: Negro Folklore and the Riots]: Reply to Prepared Comments, The Journal of American Folklore, 1970.
0.10 David S. McIntosh, Black Jack Davie, The Journal of American Folklore, 1935.
0.10 , Concerning Negro Sorcery in the United States, The Journal of American Folklore, 1890.
0.10 Paul Parker, Spanish Names of the Color of Horses, California Folklore Quarterly, 1943.
0.10 Bruce Jackson, White Dozens and Bad Sociology, The Journal of American Folklore, 1966.