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First publish date: 1977
Authors: Lawrence W. Levine
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Jerry Pinkney retells the legend of John Henry, the African American hero who raced a steam drill to cut through a mountain, in a vivid, illustrated tale for young readers.

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To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America. Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero. -- Publisher description from http://www.upenn.edu (Oct. 11, 2011).

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Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.

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📘 Mojo workin'
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An exploration of African American Hoodoo traditions, examining their emergence and spread through the African Religion Complex.

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