Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom'.....Through an exhaustive investigation of black songs, folk tales, proverbs, aphorisms, verbal games and the long narrative oral poems known as 'toasts, ' Levine argues that the value system of Afro-Americans can only be understood through an analysis of Black culture....His work ranks among the best books written on the Afro-American experience in recent years.' Al-Tony Gilmore, The Washington Post |
Contents
THE SACRED WORLD OF BLACK SLAVES | 3 |
A Question of Origins | 19 |
Slave Spirituals | 30 |
Slave Folk Beliefs | 55 |
THE MEANING OF SLAVE TALES | 81 |
Of Morality and Survival | 90 |
The Animal Trickster | 102 |
The Slave as Trickster | 118 |
The Development of Gospel Song | 174 |
THE RISE OF SECULAR SONG | 190 |
Work Songs | 202 |
The Community of Laughter | 358 |
A PANTHEON OF HEROES | 367 |
The Slave as Hero | 386 |
The Modernization of the Black Hero | 397 |
Bad Men and Bandits | 407 |
Slave Tales and the Sacred Universe | 133 |
The Fate of the Sacred World | 155 |
John Henry to Joe Louis | 420 |
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