| J. Mason Brewer, Folklorist and Scholar: His Early Texas Writings Contributor(s): Jordan, Milton S. (Editor), Glasrud, Bruce A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1622881346 ISBN-13: 9781622881345 Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Social History - Literary Collections | American - African American |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.73 lbs) 140 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: J. Mason Brewer, Folklorist and Scholar: His Texas Writings, edited by BRUCE A. GLASRUD and MILTON S. JORDAN, is a collection of the writings of famed African American teacher and scholar, John Mason Brewer. In this collection, Glasrud and Jordan pulled together a wide range of Brewer's publications that were written in and about Texas. These works were published over a lengthy period of time, beginning in the early 1920s and continuing to mid-century. In this stimulating collection of Brewer's writings it can be noted that he was a renaissance scholar and teacher proficient as a folklorist, poet, and historian. Glasrud and Jordan included in J. Mason Brewer a Foreword from Texas Folklore Society director KENNETH UNTIEDT, an Introduction, and a Bibliography. The publications of Brewer found in this book include Glimpses of Life: Poems; The Negro in Texas History; The Life of John Wesley Anderson in Verse; and a folklore collection, "John Tales," among other studies. |