Patrick Mullen is Emeritus Professor of English and Folklore at Ohio State University and author of Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly.

"Mullen's book will stimulate plenty of discussion... Highly recommended."--Choice "In The Man Who Adores the Negro, Mullen has written, essentially, two books. The first is a critical history of folklorists' work with African American informants-an account of the success, and failure, of well-intentioned scholars operating in a charged racial environment. And the second is a manual on ethnographic practice-a reflection on the politics of representation and on the potential value and limitations of contemporary fieldwork methodology. Neither book can be separated from the other; they work collaboratively, in tandem. And both, in the end, are well worth the read."--Journal of Folklore Research "Marks an important contribution to the study of folklore scholarship on African Americans and the role this scholarship has played in the national discourse on constructions of race."--The Journal of Southern History

Patrick Mullen is Emeritus Professor of English and Folklore at Ohio State University and author of Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly.

"Mullen's book will stimulate plenty of discussion... Highly recommended."--Choice "In The Man Who Adores the Negro, Mullen has written, essentially, two books. The first is a critical history of folklorists' work with African American informants-an account of the success, and failure, of well-intentioned scholars operating in a charged racial environment. And the second is a manual on ethnographic practice-a reflection on the politics of representation and on the potential value and limitations of contemporary fieldwork methodology. Neither book can be separated from the other; they work collaboratively, in tandem. And both, in the end, are well worth the read."--Journal of Folklore Research "Marks an important contribution to the study of folklore scholarship on African Americans and the role this scholarship has played in the national discourse on constructions of race."--The Journal of Southern History

Patrick Mullen is Emeritus Professor of English and Folklore at Ohio State University and author of Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly.

"Mullen's book will stimulate plenty of discussion... Highly recommended."--Choice "In The Man Who Adores the Negro, Mullen has written, essentially, two books. The first is a critical history of folklorists' work with African American informants-an account of the success, and failure, of well-intentioned scholars operating in a charged racial environment. And the second is a manual on ethnographic practice-a reflection on the politics of representation and on the potential value and limitations of contemporary fieldwork methodology. Neither book can be separated from the other; they work collaboratively, in tandem. And both, in the end, are well worth the read."--Journal of Folklore Research "Marks an important contribution to the study of folklore scholarship on African Americans and the role this scholarship has played in the national discourse on constructions of race."--The Journal of Southern History