The Gullah People and Their African Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gullah People and Their African Heritage write by William S. Pollitzer. This book was released on 1999. The Gullah People and Their African Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the origins and way of life of the Gullahs of South Carolina and Georgia, details the skills and customs they brought with them from Africa, and discusses the threats to their survival as a distinctive culture
Blue Roots
Blue Roots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Roots write by Roger Pinckney. This book was released on 2003. Blue Roots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Making Gullah
Making Gullah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Gullah write by Melissa L. Cooper. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Making Gullah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles write by Amy Lotson Roberts. This book was released on 2019-08-12. Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll Island and, thanks to preservation efforts, the Historic Harrington School still stands on St. Simons Island. From the Selden Normal and Industrial Institute to the tabby cabins of Hamilton Plantation, authors Amy Roberts and Patrick Holladay explore the rich history of the region's islands and their people, including such local notables as Deaconess Alexander, Jim Brown, Neptune Small, Hazel Floyd and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.
Call Me Gullah
Call Me Gullah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Call Me Gullah write by R. H. Brown. This book was released on 2005-08. Call Me Gullah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Call Me Gullah presents a vivid description of a unique group within the African American culture. The Gullah living on Sea Coast Islands bordering South Carolina and Georgia have the purest bloodline of African slaves ever brought to America in wooden ships. The author suggests that some 75% of Blacks living in the United States remain unaware of the one of a kind group. This entertaining book tracks the life of a member from this community, also known as Geechees. It has been called fascinating by some who observe as these people are integrated into the larger society of mankind. Sons of former slaves have left a dialect, culture, and cuisine that has a direct link to their West African heritage. This work shines the spotlight on the Brown family of St. Helena Island, South Carolina. You will meet them and see why they are proud of their indigenous heritage.
