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Author : Ronald Daise
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Gullah Branches, West African Roots written by Ronald Daise and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gil L. Robertson
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1572846518
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Family Affair written by Gil L. Robertson and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s no secret that the African American community is in crisis. From health disparities and political injustice to crime statistics and a variety of social ills, it is a community teetering on the edge. Through personal stories and essays, Family Affair addresses this imbalance, offering insight on issues and topics that the majority of African Americans only talk about in secret. The goal: to stimulate dialogue that supports reflection, healing, and understanding. Family Affair comprises five sections representing the key features that influence the African American identity: History, Politics, Behavior, Beliefs, and Self-evaluation. The book showcases a wide cross-section of contributors representing various elements of the black community. Each section features at least one religious leader and one institutional leader, as well as many celebrities from the worlds of music and broadcasting, along with ordinary people with extraordinary stories.
Author : William S. Pollitzer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820320540
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Gullah People and Their African Heritage written by William S. Pollitzer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the origins and way of life of the Gullahs of South Carolina and Georgia, details the skills and customs they brought with them from Africa, and discusses the threats to their survival as a distinctive culture
Author : Ronald Daise
Publisher : Sandlapper Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878441822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Gullah Branches, West African Roots written by Ronald Daise and published by Sandlapper Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the lifestyles, customs, superstitions, and lore of cultures from which the Gullah sprang. Ronald Daise lovingly weaves poetry, personal experience, spirituals, and stunning visuals, to connect the Gullah culture to West African values and traditions and the African Diaspora of three hundred years ago.
Author : Aïda Rogers
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611175984
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book State of the Heart written by Aïda Rogers and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Carolina is a state of inspiration as well as recreation. Through its natural beauty, storied heritage, and curious character, the Palmetto State finds its way into the hearts and imaginations of every native, resident, and guest to set foot on its 32,000 square miles of soil. Continuing the format of the popular original, this second volume of State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love celebrates and commemorates the connections that the accomplished contributors have found in the well-known and far-flung locations most dear to them. With companionable charm and storytellers’ spirits, editor Aïda Rogers and the thirty-six contributors invite you to amble across South Carolina with them for a chance to see the state as they have come to know it. For writers beloved places can captivate, teach, comfort, and occasionally haunt. In this collection contributors reflect on their hometowns, the rivers and roads that marked their lives’ journeys, and the maligned neighborhoods they transformed just by living and working in them. Family beach vacations, churches and churchyards, athletic arenas modest and grand, a mountain vista, a quiet pond, a city park, an old-time produce market, Lake Murray, Brookgreen Gardens—these are just a sampling of the nearly three dozen private and public places favored by this diverse group of writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, history, journalism, and more. Photographs, artwork, verse, and even a few recipes accompany the essays, bringing readers further into sharing the writers’ experiences. While State of the Heart is rooted in the landscape of South Carolina, readers from anywhere will relate to its universal themes of growing up and growing old, recognition of past mistakes, returned-to faith, the closeness of family and friends, honoring those who came before, and setting our collective sights on the promise of the future for cherished people and places. Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina’s poet laureate, provides the foreword to this collection, which includes her poem “One River, One Boat.”
Author : James B. McMillan
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817359362
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English written by James B. McMillan and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida The only book-length bibliography on the speech of the American South, this volume focuses on the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, naming practices, word play, and other aspects of language that have interested researchers and writers for two centuries. Compiled here are the works of linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators, as well as popular commentators. With over 3,800 entries, this invaluable resource is a testament to the significance of Southern speech, long recognized as a distinguishing feature of the South, and the abiding interest of Southerners in their speech as a mark of their identity. The entries encompass Southern dialects in all their distinctive varieties—from Appalachian to African American, and sea islander to urbanite.
Author : Michael Montgomery
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820316239
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Crucible of Carolina written by Michael Montgomery and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in The Crucible of Carolina explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Africa, the Caribbean, and England. Decades before any formal, scholarly interest in South Carolina barrier life, outsiders had been commenting on and documenting the "African" qualities of the region's black inhabitants. These qualities have long been manifest in their language, religious practices, music, and material culture. Although direct contact between South Carolina and Africa continued until the Civil War, the era of Caribbean contact was briefer and ended with the close of the American colonial period. Throughout this volume, though, the contributors look beyond the cultural motivations and political appeal of strengthening the links between coastal Carolina and Africa and examine the cost of a diminished recognition of this important Caribbean influence. Not surprisingly, the influence of the pioneering linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner is reflected in many of these essays. The work presented in this volume, however, moves beyond Turner in dealing with the discourse and stylistic aspects of Gullah; in relating patters of Gullah to other Anglophone creoles and to various processes of creolization; and in questioning the usefulness of "retention," "survival," and "continuity" as operational concepts in comparative research. Within this context of furthering and challenging Turner's work in the barrier islands, and in seeking a truer measure of both African and Caribbean influences there, the contributors cover such topics as names and naming, the language of religious rituals, basket-making traditions, creole discourse patterns, and the grammatical morphology of Gullah and related creole and pidgin languages. Other contributors consider the substrate contributions and African continuities to be found in New World language patterns into new patterns adapted to the various situations in the New World. Opening new and advancing previous areas of research, The Crucible of Carolina also contributes to a further appreciation of the richness and diversity of South Carolina's cultural heritage.
Author : Eva Mae Burkett
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810811515
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book American English Dialects in Literature written by Eva Mae Burkett and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Stephanie Rose Bird
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 9780738702759
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones written by Stephanie Rose Bird and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the magical roots of "hoodoo" back to West Africa, the author provides a history of this nature-based healing tradition and offers practical advice on how to apply hoodoo magic to everyday life.
Author : Stephanie Rose Bird
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612831370
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Big Book of Soul written by Stephanie Rose Bird and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul is the ultimate expression and experience of African-American culture. The Big Book of Soul is the first popular reference book to provide an in-depth examination of the source of soul in African culture and how soul finds its expression today. Author Stephanie Rose Bird takes readers on a breathtaking journey of soul by examining the spirit of animism and how it evolved in contemporary African-American culture. She explores spiritual practices related to diet, dance, beauty, healing, and the arts, and provides readers with ancient healing rituals and practices they can use today. Filled with fun facts, practical advice, and ancient spiritual wisdom, The Big Book of Soul is for any reader who wants a genuine, rooted experience of soul today.
Author : Robert B Winans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050649
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Banjo Roots and Branches written by Robert B Winans and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus. Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados. Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.
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Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Dusinberre
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322100
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Them Dark Days written by William Dusinberre and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery’s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment. Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers’ letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, Them Dark Days offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.
Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820314655
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties written by Salikoko S. Mufwene and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For review see: Daniel J. Crowley, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 188-190.
Author : Patricia Shehan Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Roots & branches written by Patricia Shehan Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of songs from many countries.
Author : F. G. Ogini
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book An outline history of West Africa written by F. G. Ogini and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ras Michael Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139561049
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry written by Ras Michael Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the simbi, Ras Michael Brown describes the essential role religion played in key historical processes, such as establishing new communities and incorporating American forms of Christianity into an African-based spirituality. This book illuminates how people of African descent engaged the spiritual landscape of the Lowcountry through their subsistence practices, religious experiences and political discourse.
