Book
Making Gullah : a history of Sapelo Islanders, race, and the American imagination / Melissa L. Cooper.
Item details
- ISBN: 9781469632674
- ISBN: 1469632675
- ISBN: 9781469632681
- ISBN: 1469632683
- Physical Description: 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Genre: | History. |
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| Live Oak Public Libraries: Bull St. Library |
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31008001805056 | NONFIC | Available | |
| Live Oak Public Libraries: Carnegie Library |
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31008001805064 | NONFIC | Available | |
| Live Oak Public Libraries: Southwest Chatham Library |
975.873 COOP Send SMS Text |
31008001805049 | NEW | Checked out | |
| Marshes of Glynn Libraries: Brunswick-Glynn County Library |
SPEC COL 975.8737 MCINTOSH Send SMS Text |
31061000485453 | Heritage Room | Available | |
| Marshes of Glynn Libraries: St. Simons Island Public Library |
NON FIC 975.8737 COO Send SMS Text |
31061000345004 | Stacks | Checked out | |
| Marshes of Glynn Libraries: St. Simons Island Public Library |
NON FIC 975.8737 COO Send SMS Text |
31061000433081 | GeorgiaCollection | Available | |
| Troup-Harris Regional Library: LaGrange Memorial Library |
975.8737 COO Send SMS Text |
31055100605200 | NONFICTION | Available |
