Juneteenth Texas
Subtitle: Essays in African-American Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society)
Contributors: Francis Edward Abernethy (Editor); Alan B. Govenar (Editor); Patrick B. Mullen (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781574410181
Subjects: Black studies; Folklore; General; Black American Folklore; Music/Songbooks; Texas; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; North America; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; African Americans; Social life and customs
First sentence: Black people were a long time into Texas before the Anglos came to claim that territory as their own.
Description: Juneteenth Texas reflects the many dimensions of African-American folklore. The personal essays are reminiscences about the past and are written from both black and white perspectives.

They are followed by essays which classify and describe different aspects of African-American folk culture in Texas; studies of specific genres of folklore, such as songs and stories; studies of specific performers, such as Lightnin' Hopkins and Manse Lipscomb and of particular folklorists who were important in the collecting of African-American folklore, such as J. Mason Brewer; and a section giving resources for the further study of African Americans in Texas.