Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: John Langston Gwaltney (Day 12)
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12/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair,
in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
General,
my people
John Langston Gwaltney
John Langston Gwaltney was a writer and anthropologist focused on African American culture, best known for his book Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Syracuse in New York. Drylongso is a collection of Gwaltney’s transcriptions of oral interviews with who he described as “core black people”, ordinary men and women who made up black America.