Our Darktown Press: A Humorous Anthology Compiled from the American Negro Press

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Title

Our Darktown Press: A Humorous Anthology Compiled from the American Negro Press

This edition

"Our Darktown Press: A Humorous Anthology Compiled from the American Negro Press" . Ed. Inez Lopez Cohen (Mrs. Octavus Roy Cohen). New York: Appleton, 1932.

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About the anthology


• "Humorous malapropisms, supposedly culled from the pages of African-American newspapers of the time. The author was the wife of Octavus Roy Cohen, a celebrated purveyor of Amos-'n-Andy style racist humor" (from Lorne Bair.com https://www.lornebair.com/pages/books/14497/inez-lopez-cohen-novel-margaret-freeman-jacket-design/our-darktown-press ).

Cited in


• Lash 1946: 724.
• [not cited in Kinnamon 1997]

Item Number

A0031

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