Making Gullah : a history of Sapelo Islanders, race, and the American imagination
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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)
University of North Carolina Press, c2017
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index
Contents of Works
- 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, the 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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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 networks, positioning beating drums and blood sacrifices as essential elements of black folk culture. Inspired by this curious mix of influences, researchers converged on one site in particular, Sapelo Island, Georgia, to seek support for their theories about ""African survivals."" The legacy of that body of research is the area's contemporary identification as a Gullah community and a set of broader notions about Gullah identity.
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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