Roger D. Abrahams

20 books

After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Concerning the Slaves, Their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies by John F. Szwed, Roger D. Abrahams
After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Concerning the Slaves, Their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies
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John F. Szwed, Roger D. Abrahams

After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Concerning the Slaves, Their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies

John F. Szwed, Roger D. Abrahams

480 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

medium-paced
And Other Neighborly Names: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore by Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams

And Other Neighborly Names: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore

Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams

321 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

informative medium-paced
Counting-Out Rhymes: A Dictionary by Lois Rankin, Roger D. Abrahams

Counting-Out Rhymes: A Dictionary

Lois Rankin, Roger D. Abrahams

264 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

informative inspiring tense medium-paced
Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies by Roger D. Abrahams
Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies
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Roger D. Abrahams

Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies

Roger D. Abrahams

144 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

medium-paced
Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices by Roger D. Abrahams

Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices

Roger D. Abrahams

286 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Jump-Rope Rhymes, a Dictionary by Roger D. Abrahams
Jump-Rope Rhymes, a Dictionary
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Roger D. Abrahams

Jump-Rope Rhymes, a Dictionary

Roger D. Abrahams

228 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Man-Of-Words/West Indies by Roger D. Abrahams

Man-Of-Words/West Indies

Roger D. Abrahams

203 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South by Roger D. Abrahams

Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South

Roger D. Abrahams

384 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Talking Black by Roger D. Abrahams
Talking Black
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Roger D. Abrahams

Talking Black

Roger D. Abrahams

102 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

Verbal Art as Performance by Barbara A. Babcock, Joel F. Sherzer, Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams, Gary H. Gossen

Verbal Art as Performance

Barbara A. Babcock, Joel F. Sherzer, Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams, Gary H. Gossen

150 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced