While still an undergraduate, Fauset was called upon to travel to Canada and collect the folklore of Blacks living in Nova Scotia. Unaware of the fact that there were Blacks living in the Maritime provinces of Canada, Fauset spent six weeks collecting the “first-ever collecting amongst Blacks in Canada” (Carpenter 1999: 222). Documented straight from the voices of each informant, the piece also captures the language variety of this untapped source.
1928 - Tales and Riddles Collected in Philadelphia
Collected during the early months of 1923, this piece captures the tales and riddles of various African Americans living in Philadelphia. Individuals including laborers, professional men and students testify about tales while children in the seventh grade provide memorable riddles (Fauset 1928: 529). With the provided list of informants, their names, age, where born and occupation, readers are given a gist of the origin of each riddle and tale.
1944 - Black Gods of the Metropolis; Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North
“The work is an important contribution to American studies broadly as well as to the disciplines of anthropology, folklore, sociology, religious studies, and history.” (Carpenter 1999: 228)
Black Gods of the Metropolis provides sort of an insider’s perspective to the Black church, cults and sects. This book includes the study of Mt. Sinai Holy Church of America, Inc., the United House of Prayer for All People, and the Moorish Science Temple of America.
Also Check Out...
- Negro Folk Tales from the South in the American Folklore Society (1927)
- For Freedom (1927)
- Folklore from Nova Scotia, Memoirs of the American Folklore Society (1931)
- America: Red, White, Black, Yellow (1969)
- Sojourner Truth; God's Faitful Pilgrim (1971)
