J. Mason Brewer, Folklorist And Scholar: His Early Texas Writings
Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN13:
9781622881345
$25.28
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.
- | Author: John Mason Brewer, Milton S. Jordan
- | Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 04, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 140 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 1622881346
- | ISBN-13: 9781622881345
- Author:
- John Mason Brewer, Milton S. Jordan
- Publisher:
- Stephen F. Austin University Press
- Publication Date:
- Jan 04, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 140 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- ISBN-10:
- 1622881346
- ISBN-13:
- 9781622881345