African Americans -- Folklore
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- The annotated African American folktales, edited with a foreword, introduction, and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar
- The tar baby, a global history, Bryan Wagner
- Brer Rabbit, from the collected stories of Joel Chandler Harris ; retold by David Borgenicht ; illustrated by Don Daily
- The people could fly, American Black folktales, Virginia Hamilton
- The knee-high man, and other tales, Pictures by Ralph Pinto
- Stagolee shot Billy, Cecil Brown
- All stuck up, by Linda Hayward ; illustrated by Normand Chartier
- The people could fly, the picture book, Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- Casey Jones's fireman, the story of Sim Webb, Nancy Farmer ; pictures by James Bernardin
- African American folk healing, Stephanie Mitchem
- Fairy tales with a Black consciousness, essays on adaptations of familiar stories, edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Ruth McKoy Lowery and Laretta Henderson
- The six fools, collected by Zora Neale Hurston ; adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Ann Tanksley
- Night riders in Black folk history, by Gladys-Marie Fry
- Crossing borders through folklore, African American women's fiction and art, Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown
- Uncle Remus; tales, Selected and introduced by John Tumlin
- The people could fly, American Black folktales, told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- Talk that talk, an anthology of African-American storytelling, edited by Linda Goss & Marian E. Barnes
- More of Brer Rabbit's tricks, Ennis Rees ; drawings by Edward Gorey
- Wishbone, reference and interpretation in Black folk narrative, Laura C. Jarmon
- Brer Tiger and the big wind, by William J. Faulkner ; illustrated by Roberta Wilson
- The last tales of Uncle Remus, as told by Julius Lester ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- John Henry, adapted by Stephen Krensky ; illustrations by Mark Oldryod [sic]
- The signifying monkey, a theory of Afro-American literary criticism, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Crowned, magical folk and fairy tales from the diaspora, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
- Langston Hughes & the blues, Steven C. Tracy
- The three witches, collected by Zora Neale Hurston ; adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Faith Ringgold
- The sanctified church, Zora Neale Hurston
- The hired hand, an African-American folktale, retold by Robert D. San Souci ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney
- Whispers on the color line, rumor and race in America, Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner
- Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Witcover
- Jump!, the adventures of Brer Rabbit, by Joel Chandler Harris ; adapted by Van Dyke Parks and Malcolm Jones ; illustrated by Barry Moser
- The secret of the stones, a folktale, retold by Robert D. San Souci ; pictures by James Ransome
- Black folklore and the politics of racial representation, Shirley Moody-Turner
- Walt Disney's Uncle Remus stories, retold by Marion Palmer [pseudonym] from the original "Uncle Remus" stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Pictures by Al Dempster and Bill Justice, adapted from the characters and backgrounds created for the Walt Disney motion picture "Song of the South" and other Walt Disney adaptations of the original "Uncle Remus" stories
- 'Tis so, Negro folk tales of the Old South, including Negro dialect, by Sam B. Short
- Langston Hughes, folk dramatist in the protest tradition, 1921-1943, Joseph McLaren ; foreword by Beth Turner ; afterword by James V. Hatch
- Long gone, the Mecklenburg Six and the theme of escape in Black folklore, Daryl Cumber Dance
- The headless haunt and other African-American ghost stories, collected and retold by James Haskins ; illustrated by Ben Otero
- The freedom riddle, retold by Angela Shelf Medearis ; illustrated by John Ward
- African-American folktales for young readers, including favorite stories from African and African-American storytellers, collected and edited by Richard Alan Young and Judy Dockrey Young
- Bruh Rabbit and the tar baby girl, Virginia Hamilton ; paintings by James Ransome
- From folklore to fiction, a study of folk heroes and rituals in the Black American novel, H. Nigel Thomas
- Jump again!, more adventures of Brer Rabbit, by Joel Chandler Harris ; adapted by Van Dyke Parks ; illustrated by Barry Moser
- Tall tales & legends, Platypus Productions, Inc. ; Gaylord Production Company
- John Henry, written by Brad Kessler ; illustrated by Barry Jackson
- Mother wit from the laughing barrel, readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore, [edited by] Alan Dundes
- Sure as sunrise, stories of Bruh Rabbit & his walkin' talkin' friends, Alice McGill ; illustrated by Don Tate
- The people could fly, American black folktales, told by Virginia Hamilton
- Way up and over everything, Alice McGill ; illustrated by Jude Daly
- Afro-American folktales, stories from Black traditions in the New World, selected and edited by Roger D. Abrahams