Long Black Song
Baker, Houston A![Long Black Song](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/139/1395039/CHSBZCOP031395039.jpg)
Houston Baker maintains that black American culture, grounded in a unique historical experience, is distinct from any other, and that it has produced a body of literature that is equally and demonstrably unique in its sources, values, and modes of expression. He argues that black American literature is rooted in black folklore- animal tales, trickster slave tales, religious tales, folk songs, spirituals, and ballads- and that a knowledge of th...