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Article: Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture
edited by Gena Dagel Caponi University of Massachusetts Press August 1999, $60.00, ISBN 1-558-49182-1
"What is this `black' in black culture?" asks Gena Dagel Caponi in her new collection of works, Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture. The question is not new. It has been the topic of rigorous argument since the Harlem Renaissance when Zora Neale Hurston collected folklore, James Weldon Johnson collected black sermons as poetry, and the Cotton Club became a household word in New York, causing George Schuyler to ...