ISBN:
9781469632674
,
9781469632681
,
9781469632698
Language:
English
Pages:
292 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cooper, Melissa L. Making Gullah
DDC:
975.873700496073
Keywords:
Gullahs
;
African Americans History
;
Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
;
Sapelo Island
;
Gullah
;
Schwarze
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Geschichte
;
Sapelo Island
;
Gullah
;
Schwarze
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Geschichte
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
The misremembered past -- From wild savages to beloved primitives: Gullah folk take center stage -- The 1920s and 1930s voodoo craze: African survivals in American popular culture and the ivory tower -- Hunting survivals: W. Robert Moore, Lydia Parrish, and Lorenzo D. Turner discover Gullah folk on Sapelo Island -- Drums and shadows: the Federal Writers' Project, Sapelo Islanders, and the specter of African superstitions on Georgia's coast -- Reworking roots: Black women writers, Sapelo interviews in Drums and shadows, and the making of a new Gullah folk -- Gone but not forgotten: Sapelo's vanishing folk and the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor -- From African survivals to the fight for survival
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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