John W Roberts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3613209 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John W Roberts |
| NOMBRES | John W |
| APELLIDO | Roberts |
| FIRMA | ROBERTS J W |
| AFILIACIONES | National Park Service |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0870-952X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1959 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Appraising Summer of Sam
Although nominally about the Son of Sam killings, Spike Lee's 1999 film Summer of Sam is typically interpreted as an auteurist allegory for racial scapegoating. Such allegorical reading raises a question about the nature the film's textual properties vis-à-vis the textual nature of intellectual property in American jurisprudence. This essay argues that Summer of Sam poses an immanent critique of the concept of property, as refracted through the m…
Dancing the Dance of Another
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Systemic Racism in American Folkloristics
African American Belief Narratives and the African Cultural Tradition
In earlier folklore research, the term folk was applied, first, to peasant groups in culturally homogeneous societies of Europe and, later, to minorities in the pluralistic American society. In this paper, I argue that the study of African American folklore has been particularly disadvantaged by this approach because that folklore is the product of a continuous tradition of creative cultural production that began in Africa. To illustrate how it c…
Grand Theory, Nationalism, and American Folklore
A difficulty in producing grand theory in folklore study stems from the fact that it is a discipline with many origin narratives deeply influenced by nationalistic imperatives. The influence of nationalism makes it virtually impossible to have a coherent disciplinary project capable of producing grand theory. Although American folklorists have tended to deny nationalism as an influence on their conception of the field, I demonstrate that it has p…
Custer and Me
Death for a Terrorist
In June 2001, the Federal Bureau of Prisons helped to carry out the execution of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the infamous 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The intense national and international media attention that the execution received was virtually unprecedented in the bureau's history, and it put the bureau in the difficult position of having to carry out two potentially conflicting responsibilities: facilitat…
Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women
Book Review| March 01 2000 Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture By Lori Landay. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 1998. xi, 258 pp. $45.00. John W. Roberts John W. Roberts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 223–224. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-223 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Horace Pippin and the African American Vernacular
y most informed estimations, Horace Pippin is one of the most important African American visual artists of the twentieth century. During relatively brief career as an artist, Pippin produced some one hundred paintings and a number of burnt wood panels on themes as varied as war, family and community life, religion, and nature. In their mammoth study, A History of African American Artists, Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson attribute Pippin's succ…
Hidden Right out in the Open
This address represents an attempt to sketch a history of academic folklore in the United States as a way of understanding the difficulties that the field has experienced in achieving and sustaining an identity as an independent discipline in colleges and universities. In developing its argument, the essay draws an analogy between folklore’s struggle to achieve individual disciplinary status and the struggle for individual identity by the protago…
Obituaries
Other| January 01 1999 Obituaries: Gerald L. Davis (1941–97) John W. Roberts John W. Roberts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (1999) 112 (443): 81–83. https://doi.org/10.2307/541404 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John W. Roberts; Obituaries: Gerald L. Davis (1941–97). Journal of American Folklore 1 January 1999; 112 (443): 81–…
Putting Foreign Policy to Work
Journal Article Putting Foreign Policy to Work: The Role of Organized Labor in American Foreign Relations, 1932–1941. By John W. Roberts. (New York: Garland, 1995. x, 322 pp. $78.00, ISBN 0-8153-2006-X.) Get access Gregg Andrews Gregg Andrews Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1465–1466, http…
Measuring and reducing exposure to the pollutants in house dust
Measuring and reducing exposure to the pollutants in house dust. R G Lewis, J W Roberts, J C Chuang, D E Camann, and M G RubyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.8_Pt_1.1168 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Creating the Black Folk Hero
African American Diversity and the Study of Folklore
La culture afro-americaine a toujours ete etudiee d'un point de vue folklorique dans la globalite et non dans la diversite. Or la creativite vernaculaire est issue des differences et est le produit d'un heritage culturel africain. L'A. etudie le role de l'esclavage, des femmes, des rapports homme-femme dans cette creativite
From Trickster to Badman
Long Gone
City of Sokrates
Country and Town 2. Population, Property, Taxation 3. Radical Democracy: Constitution Cohesion 4. The Imperial Ethos 5. Schooling, Literacy, Books and History 6. Religion 7. Art and Patronage: Poetry in General Tragedy Comedy Visual Art 8. Science, Nature, Culture and the Sophists 9. Philosophy, from Anaxagoras to Sokrates Appendix 1. Athenian Money Appendix 2. Chronological Table Further Reading Index
Stackolee and the Development of a Black Heroic Idea
Joning
"Railroad Bill" and the American Outlaw Tradition
The Afro-American Trickster Tale
Slave Proverbs
Two Letters from Liberia
City of Sokrates
Country and Town 2. Population, Property, Taxation 3. Radical Democracy: Constitution Cohesion 4. The Imperial Ethos 5. Schooling, Literacy, Books and History 6. Religion 7. Art and Patronage: Poetry in General Tragedy Comedy Visual Art 8. Science, Nature, Culture and the Sophists 9. Philosophy, from Anaxagoras to Sokrates Appendix 1. Athenian Money Appendix 2. Chronological Table Further Reading Index
African American Diversity and the Study of Folklore
La culture afro-americaine a toujours ete etudiee d'un point de vue folklorique dans la globalite et non dans la diversite. Or la creativite vernaculaire est issue des differences et est le produit d'un heritage culturel africain. L'A. etudie le role de l'esclavage, des femmes, des rapports homme-femme dans cette creativite
Systemic Racism in American Folkloristics
Hidden Right out in the Open
This address represents an attempt to sketch a history of academic folklore in the United States as a way of understanding the difficulties that the field has experienced in achieving and sustaining an identity as an independent discipline in colleges and universities. In developing its argument, the essay draws an analogy between folklore’s struggle to achieve individual disciplinary status and the struggle for individual identity by the protago…
African American Belief Narratives and the African Cultural Tradition
In earlier folklore research, the term folk was applied, first, to peasant groups in culturally homogeneous societies of Europe and, later, to minorities in the pluralistic American society. In this paper, I argue that the study of African American folklore has been particularly disadvantaged by this approach because that folklore is the product of a continuous tradition of creative cultural production that began in Africa. To illustrate how it c…
Stackolee and the Development of a Black Heroic Idea
Appraising Summer of Sam
Although nominally about the Son of Sam killings, Spike Lee's 1999 film Summer of Sam is typically interpreted as an auteurist allegory for racial scapegoating. Such allegorical reading raises a question about the nature the film's textual properties vis-à-vis the textual nature of intellectual property in American jurisprudence. This essay argues that Summer of Sam poses an immanent critique of the concept of property, as refracted through the m…
Grand Theory, Nationalism, and American Folklore
A difficulty in producing grand theory in folklore study stems from the fact that it is a discipline with many origin narratives deeply influenced by nationalistic imperatives. The influence of nationalism makes it virtually impossible to have a coherent disciplinary project capable of producing grand theory. Although American folklorists have tended to deny nationalism as an influence on their conception of the field, I demonstrate that it has p…
Joning
"Railroad Bill" and the American Outlaw Tradition
Two Letters from Liberia
Slave Proverbs
"Railroad Bill" and the American Outlaw Tradition
The Afro-American Trickster Tale
Joning
Stackolee and the Development of a Black Heroic Idea
City of Sokrates
Country and Town 2. Population, Property, Taxation 3. Radical Democracy: Constitution Cohesion 4. The Imperial Ethos 5. Schooling, Literacy, Books and History 6. Religion 7. Art and Patronage: Poetry in General Tragedy Comedy Visual Art 8. Science, Nature, Culture and the Sophists 9. Philosophy, from Anaxagoras to Sokrates Appendix 1. Athenian Money Appendix 2. Chronological Table Further Reading Index
Long Gone
From Trickster to Badman
African American Diversity and the Study of Folklore
La culture afro-americaine a toujours ete etudiee d'un point de vue folklorique dans la globalite et non dans la diversite. Or la creativite vernaculaire est issue des differences et est le produit d'un heritage culturel africain. L'A. etudie le role de l'esclavage, des femmes, des rapports homme-femme dans cette creativite
Creating the Black Folk Hero
Measuring and reducing exposure to the pollutants in house dust
Measuring and reducing exposure to the pollutants in house dust. R G Lewis, J W Roberts, J C Chuang, D E Camann, and M G RubyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.8_Pt_1.1168 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Putting Foreign Policy to Work
Journal Article Putting Foreign Policy to Work: The Role of Organized Labor in American Foreign Relations, 1932–1941. By John W. Roberts. (New York: Garland, 1995. x, 322 pp. $78.00, ISBN 0-8153-2006-X.) Get access Gregg Andrews Gregg Andrews Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1465–1466, http…
Horace Pippin and the African American Vernacular
y most informed estimations, Horace Pippin is one of the most important African American visual artists of the twentieth century. During relatively brief career as an artist, Pippin produced some one hundred paintings and a number of burnt wood panels on themes as varied as war, family and community life, religion, and nature. In their mammoth study, A History of African American Artists, Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson attribute Pippin's succ…
Hidden Right out in the Open
This address represents an attempt to sketch a history of academic folklore in the United States as a way of understanding the difficulties that the field has experienced in achieving and sustaining an identity as an independent discipline in colleges and universities. In developing its argument, the essay draws an analogy between folklore’s struggle to achieve individual disciplinary status and the struggle for individual identity by the protago…
Obituaries
Other| January 01 1999 Obituaries: Gerald L. Davis (1941–97) John W. Roberts John W. Roberts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (1999) 112 (443): 81–83. https://doi.org/10.2307/541404 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John W. Roberts; Obituaries: Gerald L. Davis (1941–97). Journal of American Folklore 1 January 1999; 112 (443): 81–…
Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women
Book Review| March 01 2000 Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture By Lori Landay. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 1998. xi, 258 pp. $45.00. John W. Roberts John W. Roberts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 223–224. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-223 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Death for a Terrorist
In June 2001, the Federal Bureau of Prisons helped to carry out the execution of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the infamous 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The intense national and international media attention that the execution received was virtually unprecedented in the bureau's history, and it put the bureau in the difficult position of having to carry out two potentially conflicting responsibilities: facilitat…
Custer and Me
Grand Theory, Nationalism, and American Folklore
A difficulty in producing grand theory in folklore study stems from the fact that it is a discipline with many origin narratives deeply influenced by nationalistic imperatives. The influence of nationalism makes it virtually impossible to have a coherent disciplinary project capable of producing grand theory. Although American folklorists have tended to deny nationalism as an influence on their conception of the field, I demonstrate that it has p…
African American Belief Narratives and the African Cultural Tradition
In earlier folklore research, the term folk was applied, first, to peasant groups in culturally homogeneous societies of Europe and, later, to minorities in the pluralistic American society. In this paper, I argue that the study of African American folklore has been particularly disadvantaged by this approach because that folklore is the product of a continuous tradition of creative cultural production that began in Africa. To illustrate how it c…
Systemic Racism in American Folkloristics
Dancing the Dance of Another
.
Appraising Summer of Sam
Although nominally about the Son of Sam killings, Spike Lee's 1999 film Summer of Sam is typically interpreted as an auteurist allegory for racial scapegoating. Such allegorical reading raises a question about the nature the film's textual properties vis-à-vis the textual nature of intellectual property in American jurisprudence. This essay argues that Summer of Sam poses an immanent critique of the concept of property, as refracted through the m…
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