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Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) - Softcover

Buch 45 von 72: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

Cooper, Melissa L.

 
9781469632681: Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1469632683 ISBN 13: 9781469632681
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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 “African survivals,” 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.

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Melissa Cooper is assistant professor of Southern studies at the University of South Carolina.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1469632683
ISBN 13 
9781469632681
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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