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Making Gullah : a history of Sapelo Islanders, race, and the American imagination / Melissa L. Cooper.

Van Pelt Library F292.M15 C66 2017
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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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