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

Author/creator Cooper, Melissa L.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Description292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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SeriesThe John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. ^A413403
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016042809
ISBN9781469632674 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781469632681 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN9781469632698 (ebook)

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