Making Gullah (eBook)

A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination

Melissa L. Cooper (Autor)

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2017
304 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3269-8 (ISBN)

Infos

During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots. At the same time, popular print media and artistic productions tapped the new appeal of black folk life, highlighting African-styled voodoo as an essential element of black folk culture. A number of researchers converged on one site in particular, Sapelo Island, Georgia, to seek support for their theories about "e;African survivals,"e; bringing with them a curious mix of both influences. The legacy of that body of research is the area's contemporary identification as a Gullah community. This wide-ranging history upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the Low Country blacks of Sapelo Island by refocusing the observational lens on those who studied them. Cooper uses a wide variety of sources to unmask the connections between the rise of the social sciences, the voodoo craze during the interwar years, the black studies movement, and black land loss and land struggles in coastal black communities in the Low Country. What emerges is a fascinating examination of Gullah people's heritage, and how it was reimagined and transformed to serve vastly divergent ends over the decades.

Autor

Melissa L. Cooper is associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 13 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African cultural survivals • African Diaspora History • Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect • African retentions • African survivals • American Modernism • American Modernists • Bilali Mohammed • black folklore • Black History • black land loss • Black Studies Movement • Coastal Georgia • Cornelia Bailey • Cultural Day • Daughters of the Dust • Drums and Shadows • E. Franklin Frazier • Federal Writers' Project • Folklore • Franz Boas • Geechee • Georgia History • Georgia Writers' Project • Golden Isle of Guale • Gullah • Gullah dialect • Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor • Gullah islands • Harlem Renaissance • Harlem's Black Magic • heirs' property • Hog Hammock • Howard Coffin • Julia Peterkin • Lorenzo Dow Turners • low country • low country history • Lydia Parrish • Mary Granger • McIntosh County, Georgia • Melissa L. Cooper • Melville Herskovits • modernism • Muslim slaves • National Geographic Magazine in Coastal Georgia • New Negro • New Negro intelligentsia • Paule Marshall • Primitivism • Primitivists • ring shout • R.J • R.J. Reynolds • Robert Park • Sapelo • Sapelo Island • Sea Islanders • Sea Islands • slave songs • Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands • Southern studies • Sterling Brown • Voodoo • zora neale hurston
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3269-1 / 1469632691
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3269-8 / 9781469632698