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This special issue of New York Folklore is concerned with re-visioning the ways that scholars have thought and written about African American culture and traditions in the United States. Using the imagery of the "prism", African American culture and vernacular traditions can be viewed as coming from a single source, yet "refracted" to create many streams of varying colors. African cultures and traditions have been transformed over time in a New World context, yet have a common origin. This special issue of New York Folklore is concerned with examining specific African American creative traditions and in exploring the intellectual issues involved in the study of African American culture. It seeks to view African American culture from fresh new perspectives. View the Table of Contents

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Papers presented at The Arts of Black Folk Conference for Community Organizations on African American Folk Arts, held on April 22-23, 1988, New York. Published by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 1991.

Contributors include:
Gerald L. Davis, Beverly Robinson, Gladys-Marie Fry, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, Worth Long, and Sharon V. King.

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