Daryl Cumber Dance has achieved renown for her classic studies and collections such as Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans; Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans; Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore; Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook; New World Adams: Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers; Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor; The Lineage of Abraham: The Biography of a Free Black Family in Charles City, VA; From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore; In Search of Annie Drew, the Mother, and Muse of Jamaica Kincaid; Here Am I: Miscellaneous Meanderings, Meditations, Memoirs, and Melodramas; and her fiction, Till Death Us Did Part: A Story of Four Widows and Land of the Free... Negroes.
