Folklore, twentieth-century American literature. Author of I Heard the Old Fishermen Say: Folklore of the Texas Gulf Coast; Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly; co-author of Lake Erie Fishermen: Work, Identity, and Tradition; The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore; and articles on folk belief, legend, folk song, and other aspects of American folklore. Co-editor of Juneteenth Texas: Essays on African-American Folklore.