Encyclopedia of Black folklore and humor / compiled and edited by Henry D. Spalding ; Introduction by J. Mason Brewer ; Illustrated by Rue Knapp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spalding, Henry D., compiler, editor.

Jonathan David Publishers, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American wit and humor.

African Americans--Folklore.

African Americans.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 589 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Black folklore and humor

Place of Publication:

Middle Village, N.Y. : Jonathan David Publishers, 1972.

Summary:

The Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor presents a well-rounded social history of the African-American, and demonstrates very graphically in each of its seven sections the close relationship between folklore and history.

Notes:

"Copyright 1972 by Henry D. Spalding"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-581).

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy retains dust jacket. Magazine article laid in.

ISBN:

0824601297

OCLC:

256481