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.
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Their responses, recorded in Drylongso , are to American oral history what blues and jazz are to American music.
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