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Making Gullah : A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cooper, Melissa L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.