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Download or read book St. Helena Island, South Carolina - Home of the Mende People written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Benton Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Folk Culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina written by Guy Benton Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Jackson Woofter (Jr.)
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Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Yeomanry written by Thomas Jackson Woofter (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Glover
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Development of Christianity on St. Helena Island, South Carolina Amongst the Gullah People written by Frank Glover and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella C. Glen
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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Life on St. Helena Island written by Isabella C. Glen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Isabella C. Glen, a native of Hopes Plantation on St. Helena Island, S.C. Includes descriptions of African American churches on the island and recollections of attending Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School.
Author : Guy Benton Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Folk Culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina written by Guy Benton Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William S. Pollitzer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327839
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (278 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 2005-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina-Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the native black population of the Sea Islands has developed a vibrant way of life that remains, in many ways, as African as it is American. This landmark volume tells a multifaceted story of this venerable society, emphasizing its roots in Africa, its unique imprint on America, and current threats to its survival. With a keen sense of the limits to establishing origins and tracing adaptations, William S. Pollitzer discusses such aspects of Gullah history and culture as language, religion, family and social relationships, music, folklore, trades and skills, and arts and crafts. Readers will learn of the indigo- and rice-growing skills that slaves taught to their masters, the echoes of an African past that are woven into baskets and stitched into quilts, the forms and phrasings that identify Gullah speech, and much more. Pollitzer also presents a wealth of data on blood composition, bone structure, disease, and other biological factors. This research not only underscores ongoing health challenges to the Gullah people but also helps to highlight their complex ties to various African peoples. Drawing on fields from archaeology and anthropology to linguistics and medicine, The Gullah People and Their African Heritage celebrates a remarkable people and calls on us to help protect their irreplaceable culture.
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Author : George Herzog
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Folk Culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina [by] Guy B. Johnson written by George Herzog and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob U. Gordon
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592210787
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The African Presence in Black America written by Jacob U. Gordon and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accepting the basic premise that Africa is the ancestral homeland of black Americans raises questions as to how much, if any, of African cultural heritage remains within that community. Some claim that the severity of the plantation system and the acculturation process of the slaves could not have left any Africanism in the New World, while others argue that African cultural heritage can still be seen today in many aspects of American life and thought. This volume revisits the debate, examining the ways in which this alleged cultural heritage manifests itself.
Author : Clyde Vernon Kiser
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sea Island to City written by Clyde Vernon Kiser and published by New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited. This book was released on 1932 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilbur Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 156720712X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Gullah Culture in America written by Wilbur Cross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong African cultural retention and a direct influence on American culture, particularly in the South-described in this fascinating book. Since long before the Revolution, America has had hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with a language of its own, and long endowed with traditions, language, design, medicine, agriculture, fishing, hunting, weaving, and the arts. This book explores the Gullah culture's direct link to Africa, via the sea islands of the American southeast. The first published evidence of Gullah went almost unrecorded until the 1860s, when missionaries from Philadelphia made their way, even as the Civil War was at its height, to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, to establish a small institution called Penn School to help freed slaves learn how to read and write and make a living in a world of upheaval and distress. There they noticed that most of the islanders spoke a language that was only part English, tempered with expressions and idioms, often spoken in a melodious, euphonic manner, accompanied by distinctive practices in religion, work, dancing, greetings, and the arts. The homogeneity, richness, and consistency of this culture was possible because the sea-islanders were isolated. Even today, there are more than 300,000 Gullah people, many of whom speak little or no English, living in the remoter areas of the sea islands of St. Helena, Edisto, Coosay, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Daufuskie, and Cumberland. Gullah Culture in America explores not only the history of Gullah, but takes the reader behind the scenes of Gullah culture today to show what it's like to grow up, live, and celebrate in this remarkable and uniquely American community.
Author : Keith Cartwright
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820345997
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways written by Keith Cartwright and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We're seeing people that we didn't know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. This interdisciplinary study slips beneath the bar of rigid national and literary periods, embarking upon deeper—more rhythmic and embodied—signatures of time. It swings low through ecologies and symbolic orders of creolized space. And it reappraises pluralistic modes of knowledge, kinship, and authority that have sustained vital forms of agency (such as jazz) amid abysses of racialized trauma. Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santería, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Turning to an orphan girl's West African initiation tale to follow a remarkably traveled body of feminine rites and writing (in works by Paule Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Cabrera, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and LeAnne Howe, among others), Cartwright argues that only in holistic form, emergent from gulfs of cross-cultural witness, can literary and humanistic authority find legitimacy. Without such grounding, he contends, our educational institutions blind and even poison students, bringing them to “swallow lye,” like the grandson of Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's “A Worn Path.” Here, literary study may open pathways to alternative medicines—fetched by tenacious avatars like Phoenix (or an orphan Kumba or a shell-shaking Turtle)—to remedy the lies our partial histories have made us swallow.
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.
Author : Muriel Miller Branch
Publisher : Sandlapper Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878441532
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)
Download or read book The Water Brought Us written by Muriel Miller Branch and published by Sandlapper Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The origins of the Gullah language and culture can be traced to the castles and forts along the West African coast where captured Africans awaited transport into slavery in the West Indies and America. This distinctive Creole language and culture later took root and thrived among enslaved Africans in the West Indies and on the isolated Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia"--Page 4 of cover
Author : Philip Morgan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342742
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry written by Philip Morgan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life, they often engage a central dilemma: the region's physical and cultural remoteness helps to preserve the venerable ways of its black inhabitants, but it can also marginalize the vital place of lowcountry blacks in the Atlantic World. The essays, which range in coverage from the founding of the Georgia colony in the early 1700s through the present era, explore a range of topics, all within the larger context of the Atlantic world. Included are essays on the double-edged freedom that the American Revolution made possible to black women, the lowcountry as site of the largest gathering of African Muslims in early North America, and the coexisting worlds of Christianity and conjuring in coastal Georgia and the links (with variations) to African practices. A number of fascinating, memorable characters emerge, among them the defiant Mustapha Shaw, who felt entitled to land on Ossabaw Island and resisted its seizure by whites only to become embroiled in struggles with other blacks; Betty, the slave woman who, in the spirit of the American Revolution, presented a "list of grievances" to her master; and S'Quash, the Arabic-speaking Muslim who arrived on one of the last legal transatlantic slavers and became a head man on a North Carolina plantation. Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council.
Author : Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217493
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition written by Joseph E. Holloway and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.
Author : Melissa L. Cooper
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632691
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Making Gullah written by Melissa L. Cooper and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 as an essential element of black folk culture. A number of researchers converged on one site in particular, Sapelo Island, Georgia, to seek support for their theories about "African survivals," bringing with them a curious mix of both influences. The legacy of that body of research is the area's contemporary identification as a Gullah community. 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.
