Drylongso

Drylongso by Gwaltney, John L.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780394510170.

In writing his "Self-Portrait of Black America," anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney 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 Drylongso, are to American oral history what blues and jazz are to American music. If the people in William H. Johnsons and Jacob Lawrences paintings could talk, this is what they would say.