However by the 1970s and 1980s, historians, using archaeological records, black folklore, and statistical data were able to describe a much more detailed and nuanced picture of slave life.

Other songs, like "Signifying Monkey" and "The Snake," took their story lines from black folklore.

It was so full of black folklore.

The epithet appears in black folklore.

Julius Lester, a black folklorist and university professor, sees the Uncle Remus stories as important records of black folklore.

In the 1970s and 1980s, historians made use of archaeological records, black folklore, and statistical data to describe a much more detailed and nuanced picture of slave life.

Ms. Weems has incorporated black folklore into her work before, and her interest in Gullah is not surprising.

A lawyer in Texas specializes in black folklore and late-19th- and early-20th-century Texas folklore.

Passing people often feigned infertility out of fear that the baby might be born visibly black - genetically unlikely, but nonetheless a stubborn part of the black folklore.

"To Sleep With Anger," a leisurely work filled with visual imagery and references to black folklore, is stylistically more audacious than most mainstream films.