Rayna Green

Southern Exposure Contributor

Rayna Green is presently director of the Project on Native Americans in Science for the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. She served as coordinator of the Regional America Program for the Bicentennial Festival of American Folklife at the Smithsonian Institute, and is book review editor for the Journal of American Folklore. She has written the introduction to Vance Randolph’s collection, Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales (University of Illinois Press, 1976), as well as articles and reviews for many journals. Rayna wrote us the following note: “My grandmother, Clara Frederick Derden, was the bearer of many Southern, German, and Texas traditions, including bawdy lore. Born in 1900, she died on October 19, 1976, two weeks after I finished this article. I brought a draft of the article to her hospital room and said that I had ‘told all,’ and that her reputation would be ruined. She laughed and said she hoped I’d told the truth. I’ve tried to do just that. This is for her. ” (1977)

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