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Lorenzo Dow Turner : Father of Gullah Studies /
"In this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner. A scholar whose work dramatically influenced the world of academia but whose personal story - until now - has re...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sally Rooks, Jacob Brady, and the origins of the Rooks/Turner clan : 1799-and after
- Rooks Turner : 1844-1926
- Elizabeth R. Sessoms Freeman Turner : 1861-1931
- Childhood : 1890-1910
- Howard University : 1910-1914
- Chicago : 1914-1915
- Harvard University : 1915-1917
- Professor Lorenzo Dow Turner : 1917-1926
- University of Chicago : 1919-1926
- Howard University--Turner's final two years : 1926-1928
- Washington Sun--a venture in entrepreneurship : September 1928-January 1929
- Fisk University : 1929-1932
- Beginnings of Gullah research : 1932-1942
- University of London : 1936-1937
- Lois Gwendolyn Morton : 1918-1938
- Yale University : fall 1938
- Brazil and back : 1940-1941
- Fisk University and the founding of African studies : 1943-1946
- Roosevelt College and the publication of Africanisms in the Gullah dialect : 1946-1966
- Africa at last!: 1951
- Peace Corps project and public service : 1962-1966
- Relations between colleagues--Turner and Herskovits : 1936-1963
- Turner's final years : 1960-1972
- Epilogue : contemporary relevance of Turner's contribution to linguistics
- Appendix : Lorenzo Dow Turner family.