Drylongso : a self-portrait of Black America / [edited by] John Iangston Gwaltney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gwaltney, John Langston, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Civil rights.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 287 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, 1980.

Contents:

A Nation Within a Nation. "Black men have no country, but they are a country in their hearts." Joseph Langstaff

The Legacy of Slavery. "I'm not saying 'Yessir' to no damn cracker." Jonathan Melton

Many Shades of Black. "Too many blackfolks are fools about color and hair." Mabel Lincoln

The Mojo and the Sayso. "The business of white men is to rule." Jackson Jordan, Jr.

The Welfare State. "You cannot walk the streets without running into something bad." Maynard Brown

Sex and Work. "Hard work don't have a thing between its legs." Nancy White

Turn. "I'm twenty-four, but sometimes I feel much older because the things I believe in are the old ways." Margaret Lawson

More Than Survival. "You got to live it the best you know how." Cora Sumter.

Notes:

"Jacket design: Richard Adelson."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy is "First Edition".

ISBN:

0394510178 :

OCLC:

5830112