Gullah-Geechee Culture – Related Topics List

Kim Waters, University of Georgia

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Non-fiction: Anthropology, Biography, History, Language, Linguistics, Memoire, Oral History, Sociology

• De Nyew Testament (New Testament in Gullah) – American Bible Society

• Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negros (Georgia Writer’s

• Project)

• Austin, Allan D. African Muslims in Antebellum America

• Bailey, Cornelia Walker, et al. God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man

• Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family

• Baptist, Edward E., The Half has Never Been Told

• Black, J. Gary. My Friend the Gullah: A Collection of Personal Experiences

• Branch, Muriel Miller. The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-speaking People

• Burton, Orville Vernon et al. Penn Center: A History Preserved

• Campbell, Emory. Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Sybopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary

• Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island

• Carney, Judith A. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

• Creel, Margaret. A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullahs

• Crook, Ray, et al. Sapelo Voices: Historical Anthropology and the Oral Traditions of Gullah-

• Geechee Communities on Sapelo Island, Georgia

• Cross, Wilbur. Gullah Culture in America

• DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk

• Geraty, Virginia Mixon. Gullah Fuh Oonuh/Gullah for You: A Guide to the Gullah Language

• Harrison, K. David. The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World’s Most Endangered Languages

• Harrison, K. David. When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World’s Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

• Hurmence, Belinda (ed.). Before Freedom: When I Just Can Remember

• Johnson, Michele Nicole. Sapelo Island’s Hog Hammock (Images of America series)

• Jones-Jackson, Patricia. When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands

• Joyner, Charles. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community

• Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole War 1835-1842

• Malinowski, Bronislaw. Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays

• Montgomery, Michael. The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture

• Mufwene, Salikoko S. (ed.). Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties

• McFeely, William. Sapelo’s People: A Long Walk into Freedom

• Neale-Hurston, Zora, Barracoon

• Nettle, Daniel, et al. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World’s Languages

• Pollitzer, William S., et al. The Gullah People and their African Heritage

• Sullivan, Buddy. Sapelo Island (Images of America series)

• Turner, Lorenzo Dow. Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

• Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

• Woofster, Jr., T.J. Black Yeomanry: Life on St. Helena Island

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Art, drama, fiction, folklore, foodways, poetry, song

• Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney (Norman Rockwell Museum)

• Allen, William Francis, et al. Slave Songs of the United States

• Beyoncé, Love Drought (from Lemonade)

• Dash, Julie. Daughters of the Dust

• Geraty, Virginia Mixon. Bittle en’ T’ing: Gullah Cooking with Maum Chrish’

• Gonzales, Ambrose Elliott. The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast

• Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

• Jaquith, Priscilla. Bo Rabbit Smart for True: Folktales from the Gullah

• Jones, Jr., Charles Colcock, et al. Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast

• Killhour, Will. Gullah Animal Tales from Dafuskie Island

• Pinckney, Roger. Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People

• Zepke, Terrance. Lowcountry Voodoo: Beginner’s Guide to Tales, Spells, and Boo Hags

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Film & Film-Makers (L.A. Rebellion)

• Charles Burnett

• Julie Dash

• Zeinabu Irene Davis

• Alile Sharon Larkin

• Haile Gerima

• Bernard Nicholas

• Billy Woodberry

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Films by Julie Dash

• Daughters of the Dust

• Four Women

• Diary of an African Nun

• Illusions