Making Gullah : a history of Sapelo Islanders, race, and the American imagination / Melissa L. Cooper.
| Author/creator | Cooper, Melissa L. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. ^A413403 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2016042809 |
| ISBN | 9781469632674 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469632675 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469632681 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469632683 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469632698 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 1469632691 (ebook) |