ABSTRACT
Many of the seminal studies of Africanisms in African American culture were conducted by anthropologists (Puckett, 1926/2003; Herskovits, 1941), sociologists (DuBois, 1939; Johnson, 1940), historians (Woodson, 1936), and linguists (Turner, 1945), who argued that early African American socialization was based in African culture. They concluded that African folklore and oral history were the mainstays and sources of the morals, religious beliefs, and social customs that became African American folkways.
