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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom

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When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first seemed thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group pride, history, or cohesiveness, Levine uncovered a cultural treasure trove, illuminating a wealthy and complex African American oral tradition, including songs, proverbs, jokes, folktales, and long narrative poems known as toasts–work that dated from before and after emancipation. The truth that these ideas and sources seem so commonplace now is largely due this book and the scholarship that followed in its wake. A landmark work that was once a part of the “cultural turn” in American history, Black Culture and Black Consciousness profoundly influenced an entire generation of historians and is still read and taught. For this anniversary reissue, Levine wrote a new preface reflecting at the writing of the book and its place within intellectual trends in African American and American cultural history.

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