Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America
John Langston Gwaltney
First Vintage Paperback Edition. June 1981. 287pp. Black wrappers titled in red. This book is Near Fine. No markings within. Includes 4 page glossary of Black Terminology at intro.
DRYLONGSO offers a candid revelation of the ideas, values, and attitudes that inform ordinary black life in America. In writing this book the author, anthropologist, folklorist and humanist, 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 this book are to American oral history what blues and jazz are to American music. This book won the first Association Anthropologists Publication Award.
