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Making Gullah - A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (Hardcover)
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Making Gullah - A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
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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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