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Making Gullah

A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination

By: Melissa L. Cooper

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Making Gullah

A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination

By: Melissa L. Cooper

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.

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UNC Press Books

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1469632691

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Revelation Examined

By: Melissa Pehle

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Revelation Examined

By: Melissa Pehle

This book is a walk through Revelation to discern the truth of the Rapture, if it exists and when it might occur, as well as what is ahead. Many theories had Biblical foundation, but obviously they could not all be right, nor could they all be wrong. This book is about the journey to discover what God said about the Rapture and the events to come for this world.

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WestBow Press

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1664237534

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Rethinking the "L" Word in Higher Education: The Revolution of Research on Leadership

ASHE Higher Education Report

By: Adrianna Kezar,Rozana Carducci,Melissa Contreras-McGavin

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Rethinking the "L" Word in Higher Education: The Revolution of Research on Leadership

ASHE Higher Education Report

By: Adrianna Kezar,Rozana Carducci,Melissa Contreras-McGavin

In these times of change and challenge in higher education, pleas for leadership have become frequent. However, the type of leadership required within this new context (of globalization, demographic changes, technological advancement, and questioning of social authority) may call for different skills, requiring a re-education among campus stakeholders if they want to be successful leaders. In the past twenty years, there has been a revolution in the way that leadership is conceptualized across most fields and disciplines. Leadership has moved away from being leader-centered, individualistic, hierarchical, focused on universal characteristics, and emphasizing power over followers. Instead, a new vision has emerged: leadership that is process-centered, collective, context-bound, non-hierarchical, and focused on mutual power and influence processes. This volume summarizes research and literature about new conceptualizations of leadership to inform practice. This is volume 31, number 6, of the ASHE Higher Education Report, a bi-monthly journal published by Jossey-Bass. See our entire list of ASHE Higher Education Report titles for a wide variety of critical issues facing Higher Education today.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787986771

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Making Gullah

A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination

By: Melissa L. Cooper

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A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination

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Making Gullah

Making Gullah

Revelation Examined

Revelation Examined

Rethinking the "L" Word in Higher Education: The Revolution of Research on Leadership

Rethinking the "L" Word in Higher Education: The Revolution of Research on Leadership

Making Gullah

Making Gullah

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