SOURCE: "Black Folklore and the Black American Literary Tradition," in Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture, The University Press of Virginia, 1972, pp. 18-41.
In the following excerpt, Baker identifies varieties of typology in African-American folklore by examining an array of literary forms ranging from sermons to blues songs.
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