Howard W. Odum's folklore odyssey : transformation to tolerance through African American folk studies /

Howard W. Odum's folklore odyssey : transformation to tolerance through African American folk studies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanders, Lynn Moss
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Odum, Howard Washington, > 1884-1954.
Folklorists > Southern States > Biography.
Sociologists > Southern States > Biography.
Authors, American > Biography.
African Americans > Folklore.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Folk music > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • African American folklore and Odum's liberal agenda at the University of North Carolina
  • Odum and Johnson's collaborative folk-song collections
  • African American folklore in Odum's Black Ulysses trilogy
  • Odum's literary collaboration with John Wesley Gordon
  • Folklore and racial tolerance in the academy
  • Mentoring and collaboration as keys to cultural understanding.