A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent
mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an
isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the
publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in
the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first
professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a
people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud
that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that
it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages
of West Africa. Initially published in 1949, this groundbreaking
work of Afrocentric scholarship opened American minds to a
little-known culture while initiating a means for the Gullah people
to reclaim and value their past. The book presents a reference
point for today's discussions about ever-present language
varieties, Ebonics, and education, offering important reminders
about the subtleties and power of racial and cultural prejudice.
In their introduction to the volume, Katherine Wyly Mille and
Michael B. Montgomery set the text in its sociolinguistic context,
explore recent developments in the celebration of Gullah culture,
and honor Turner with a recounting of his life and scholarly
accomplishments.
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