{"id":2533,"date":"2018-10-23T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2018-10-22T14:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:36:28","slug":"black-folklore-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/black-folklore-for-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Folklore for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re the type of person who likes to curl up with a creepy story around Halloween, look no further than this list<\/a> from\u00a0Shondaland.com, a website founded by\u00a0Shonda Rhimes<\/a>. The list features several pivotal works of African-American folklore, such as Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales<\/em>, to get you into that Halloween mood!<\/p>\n

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“Hamilton\u2019s expansive set of folktales is the perfect introduction to a staple of African trickster characters, slave folklore, and the tradition of oral storytelling that black Americans have long held close. Perhaps most importantly, Hamilton provides a straightforward, blunt explanation of the origin and importance of black folklore in America, noting that while you\u2019re having fun reading these stories you must remember, \u201cthese were once a creative way for oppressed people to express their fears and hopes to one another\u2026 We must look look on the tales as a celebration of the human spirit.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can find The People Could Fly<\/em><\/a>;\u00a0The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Patricia C. McKissack;\u00a0Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales<\/a><\/em> by Virginia Hamilton; and The Annotated African American Folktales<\/em><\/a> by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar right here at The Ames Library. If you need help locating them on the shelf, just drop by a librarian’s office on our first floor.<\/p>\n

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If you’re the type of person who likes to curl up with a creepy story around Halloween, look no further than this list from\u00a0Shondaland.com, a website founded by\u00a0Shonda Rhimes. The list features several pivotal works of African-American folklore, such as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":2534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[189,77,76,188,78,190,191],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights","tag-african-american-folklore","tag-african-american-history","tag-african-americans","tag-black-folklore","tag-black-history","tag-halloween-reading","tag-reading-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/people-could-fly.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}