Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America Author: John Langston Gwaltney
	Book Information Publisher: Vintage Book Type: Paperback Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780394747132 - ISBN-10: 0394747135 Publication Date: 6/12/1981 Pages: 287

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. Johnson's and Jacob Lawrence's paintings could talk, this is what they would say.