Abrahams, Roger D.
Deep Down in the Jungle
. Chicago, Illinois: Aldine Publishing Company, 1970.
Urban black narrative folklore from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Excellent as a source on the trials of collecting folklore.
Abrahams, Roger D.
Positively Black
. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1970.
More collections of urban folktales.
Courlander, Harold.
A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1976.
A collection of oral literature, legends, tales, songs, religious beliefs, customs, sayings of people of African descent.
Dorson, Richard M.
American Negro Folktales
. Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, 1967.
Collection of black folktales with an interesting introduction which links black folktales to a European past.
Dorson, Richard M.
African Folklore
. New York: Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1972.
Collection of African folktales from several tribes.
Dundes, Alan.
Mother Wit From the Laughing Barrel
. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1973.
Selected readings and interpretations of black folklore topics, such as: folk medicine, folk stories, folk heroes and folk traditions.
Dance, Daryl Cumber.
Shuckin
’
and Jivin
’. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
Folklore from contemporary black Americans—a good survey of black folktales—can be used in the classroom.
Emmons, Martha.
Deep Like the Rivers
. Austin: Encino Press, 1969.
Stories told to Martha Emmons by friends over many years.
Feldman, Susan.
African Myths
and
Tales
. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1963.
Collection of African folktales.
Goldstein, Kenneth S.
A Guide For Field Workers in Folklore
. Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, 1969.
The aim of the book is to help guide people in the collection of folklore.
Haley, Alex.
Roots
. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1976.
The history of Alex Haley’s family from its African roots.
Hughes, Langston and Bontemps, Arna.
The Book of Negro Folklore
. New Yorks Dodd, 1958.
Collections of Black American and African folklore.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Mules and Men
. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
Excellent collection of rural tales from Ms. Hurston’s home in Florida.
Jackson, Bruce.
The Negro and his Folklore in Nineteenth Century Periodicals
. Texas: American Folklore Society, University of Texas Press, 1967.
Collection of folktales from periodicals of the nineteenth century.
Lester, Julius.
Black Folktales
. New York: Grove Press, 1969.
Collection of black American folktales.
Morgan, Kathyrn L.
Children of Strangers
. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.
The stories of the Morgans, a black American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Stampp, Kenneth M.
The Peculiar Institution
. New York: Vintage Books, 1956.
A study of the institution of slavery in the United States.
