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Making Gullah : a history of Sapelo Islanders, race, and the American imagination / Melissa L. Cooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Melissa L., author.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gullahs--Georgia--Sapelo Island.
- Gullahs.
- African Americans--Georgia--Sapelo Island--History.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
- United States--Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
- Georgia--Sapelo Island.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469632674
- 1469632675
- 9781469632681
- 1469632683
- OCLC:
- 959373112
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