Judy P. Byers talks about the work of the late folklorist Ruth Ann Musick and her own work as a folklorist. She describes the gathering of Appalachian folklore, particularly ghost stories, and her task completing Musick's unfinished work. Byers advocates the importance of folklore as a bridge between one's personal history and the great stories of…

When analyzing the question of ehtnic identity, it is crucial to pay attention to oral history and biographical material: ethnicity is not so much a collective phenomenon as an individual one. For example, much has been written about Italian migration to the United States, but the lives of the ordinary immigrants and the rich detail of their…

An overview of the achievements of black women in sports is presented in this collection of essays, biographical sketches, and philosophical investigations. The work is divided into five chapters, the first of which focuses on prejudice (racial and sexual), absence of black women as subjects in the research base, work/home/family pressures, black…