Gullah/Geechee Culture Bibliography
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Bailey, C. (2000). God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A saltwater Geechee talks about life on Sapelo Island.
New York, NY: Doubleday.
BCC – F292 .M15 B35 2000
Branch, M. M. (2000). The water brought us: The story of the Gullah-speaking people. Orangeburg, SC:
Sandlapper.
BCC – E184 .G84 B73 2000
Brown, R. M. (2012). African-Atlantic cultures and the South Carolina lowcountry. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
BCC – BL2525 .B76 2012
Carney, J. A. (2001). Black rice: the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press.
BCC – SB191 .R5 C35 2001
Coming through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah community from WPA oral histories. (2008). Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press.
BCC – F277.W33 C66 2008
Cross, W. (2008). Gullah culture in America. Westport, CT: Praeger.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 C76 2012
Crum, M. (1968). Gullah; Negro life in the Carolina Sea islands. New York, NY: Negro Universities
Press.
HSSE – 917.57990696 C888g
Dabney, J. E. (2010). Food, folklore, and art of lowcountry cooking. Naperville, IL: Cumberland House.
BCC – TX715.2.S68 D42 2010
Dash, J. (1992). Daughters of the dust: The making of an African American woman's film. New York, NY:
New Press.
BCC – PN1997 .D313343 D3 1991
Gantt, J. E. (2002). The ultimate Gullah cookbook: A taste of food, history and culture from the Gullah people.
Beaufort, SC: Sands.
BCC – TX715.2 .S68 G36 2002
Goodwine, M. (1998). The legacy of Ibo landing: Gullah roots of African American culture. Atlanta, GA:
Clarity Press.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 L43 1998
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Green, J. (1996). Gullah images: The art of Jonathan Green. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina
Press.
BCC – ND237 .G6169 A4 1996
Jones, C. C. (2000). Gullah folktales from the Georgia coast. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
BCC – GR111 .A47 J69 2000
Hammond, P. W. (2011). The Gullahs of South Carolina. Okatie, SC: Halftide Pub.
BCC – F277.B3 H36 2011
Kinlaw-Ross, E. (1997). Gullah voices from slave ships to sea island plantation, living African culture and
language preserved. Atlanta, GA: Crick Edge Press.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 K56 1997
Miller, E. A. (1995). Gullah statesman: Robert Smalls from slavery to Congress, 1839-1915. Columbia, SC:
University of South Carolina Press.
HSSE – 973.8092 Sm18B M613 1995
Montgomery, M. (Ed.). (1994). The crucible of Carolina: Essays in the development of Gullah language and
culture. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
HSSE – 427.97308996 C887 1994
National Park Service. (2013). Low country Gullah culture: Special resource study and final environmental
impact statement. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
BCC – E185.92 .L69 2005
Opala, J. A. (2000). The Gullah: Rice, slavery and the Sierra Leone-American connection. Freetown, Sierra
Leone: USIS.
BCC Reserves – E185.93 .S7 O63 2000
Opala, J. A. (2003). The Gullah: A resource guide for teachers. Harrisonburg, VA: James Madison
University.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 G85 2003
Pinckney, R. (2003). Blue roots: African-American folk magic of the Gullah people (2nd ed.). Orangeburg, SC:
Sandlapper.
BCC – GR111 .A47 P56 2003
Pinckney, R. (1998). Blue roots: African-American folk magic of the Gullah people. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn.
BCC – GR111 .A47 P56 1998
Pleasant, D. (2006). African-American root patterns: A Gullah inspired riddimic exercise book. Brooklyn, NY:
RiddimAthon!.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 P54 2006
Pollitzer, W. S. (1999). The Gullah people and their African heritage. Athens, GA: University of Georgia
Press.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 P65 1999 [2 copies]
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Pyatt, T. (2006). Gullah history along the Carolina lowcountry.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 P93 2006
Robinson, S. A. (2003). Gullah home cooking the Daufuskie way: Smokin' joe butter beans, ol' 'fuskie fried crab
rice, sticky-bush blackberry dumpling, and other Sea Island favorites. Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press.
BCC – TX715.2 .S68 R65 2003
Smart-Grosvenor, V. (1970). Vibration cooking; or, the travel notes of a Geechee girl. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday.
BCC – TX715 .V445
Taylor, J. M. (1992). Hoppin' John's lowcountry cooking: Recipes and ruminations from Charleston & the
Carolina coastal plain. New York: Bantam Books.
BCC – TX715.2.S68 T39 1992
Turner, L. D. (2002). Africanisms in the Gullah dialect. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina
Press.
BCC – PM7875.G8 T8 2002; HSSE – 427.9 T855a
Twining, M. A., & Baird, K. E. (Eds.). (1991). Sea Island roots: African presence in the Carolinas and
Georgia. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 S42 1990
JUVENILE BOOKS
Crane, C. (2002). P is for palmetto. Ann Arbor, MI: Sleeping Bear Press.
BCC – F269.3 .C73 2002
Daise, R. (1997). Little Muddy Waters: A Gullah folk tale. Beaufort, SC: G.O.G. Enterprises.
BCC New Books – PZ8.1 .D1525 Li 1997
Jaquith, P. (1981). Bo Rabbit smart for true: Folktales from the Gullah. These tales were recorded in 1949
for the Library of Congress which in 1955 issued a phonodisc under title: Animal tales told
in the Gullah dialect by Albert H. Stoddard of Savannah, Georgia, edited by D. B. M.
Emrich., New York.
HSSE Children’s Lit – 398.2 Ja
McKissack, P. (2008). Stitchin’ and pullin’: A Gee’s Bend quilt. New York, NY: Random House.
BCC – PZ7.5 .M45St 2008
ELECTRONIC BOOKS
Cross, W. (2008). Gullah culture in America. Westport, CT: Praeger. Retrieved from
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=218234&site=ehostlive
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Morgan, P. (2010). African American life in the Georgia lowcountry: The Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, in association with the Georgia Humanities
Council. Retrieved from
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/purdue/docDetail.action?docID=10496064
Smith, R. (1926). Gullah: Dedicated to the memory of Ambrose E. Gonzales. Columbia, SC: Bureau of
Publications, University of South Carolina. Retrieved from
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY102592531&srchtp=a&ste=14
National Park Service. (2012). Gullah Geechee cultural heritage corridor: Management plan. Denver, CO:
U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Retrieved from
http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo27726/Gullah_Geechee_Cultural_Heritage_Corridor
_Management_Plan[1].pdf
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Amos, A. M. (2011). Black Seminoles: The Gullah connections. The Black Scholar, 41(1), 32-47.
Baker, R. (2010). Basket weaving inspired by the Gullah. Arts & Activities, 148(4), 32-33.
Beoku-Betts, J. A. (1995). We got our way of cooking things: Women, food, and preservation of
cultural identity among the Gullah. Gender and Society, 9(5), 535-555.
Brabec, E., & Richardson, S. (2007). A clash of cultures: The landscape of the Sea Island Gullah.
Landscape Journal, 26(1), 151-167. doi: 10.3368/lj.26.1.151
Campbell, E. S. (2011). Gullah Geechee culture: Respected, understood and striving: Sixty years
after Lorenzo Dow Turner’s masterpiece, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. The Black
Scholar, 41(1), 77-84.
Crook, Jr., M. R. (2008). Gullah-Geechee archaeology: The living space of enslaved Geechee on
Sapelo Island. The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR ID: 371589). Part of the Sapelo Island
project. doi: 10.6067/XCV800002W
Dara, G. (2010). Gullah, African continuities, and their representation in Dash’s Daughters of the
Dust. The English Languages: History, Diaspora, Culture, 1.
Grabbatin, B., Hurley, P. T., & Halfacre, A. (2011). “I still have the old tradition:” The coproduction of sweetgrass basketry and coastal development. Geoforum, 42(6), 638-649. doi:
10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.06.007
Gullah. (1975). Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications, (14), 468-480.
Hamilton, K. (2012). Mother tongues and captive identities: Celebrating and "disappearing" the
Gullah/Geechee coast. Mississippi Quarterly, 65(1), 51-68.
Klein, T. B. (2011). African sounds in Gullah Geechee and on Middle Caicos. The Black Scholar,
41(1), 22-31.
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Matory, J. L. (2008). The Illusion of isolation: The Gullah/Geechees and the political economy of
African culture in the Americas. Comp Stud Soc Hist, 50(4), 949-980. doi:
10.1017/S0010417508000406
Richards, S. L. (2009). Space, water, memory: Slavery and Beaufort, South Carolina. Cultural
Dynamics, 21(3), 255-282. doi: 10.1177/0921374008350381
Smalls, K. A. (2012). ‘We had lighter tongues’: Making and mediating Gullah/Geechee personhood
in the South Carolina lowcountry. Language and Communication, 32(2), 147-159. doi:
10.1016/j.langcom.2011.05.009
Smith, F. O. (1991). Gullah narrative. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, 16(4), 129-136. doi:
10.1525/ahu.1991.16.4.129
MEDIA
Daughters of the dust. (1999). New York, NY: Kino on Video.
BCC – PN1997 .D313343 1999 (DVD)
Daughters of the dust. (1991). New York, NY: Kino on Video.
HSSE – VC E185.6 VC4593 .D3 1991 (VHS)
Family across the sea. (2000). Columbia, SC: ETV.
BCC – E185.625 .F353 2000 (DVD)
God's gonna trouble the water. (2004). Columbia, SC: SCETV.
BCC – E185.93 .S7 G59 1997 (DVD)
Slave songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. (1992). In L. Parrish (Ed.). Athens: University of Georgia
Press.
BCC – M1670 .S6 1992; HSSE – 784.7 P24 (Score)
Songs uv dee Gullah pee'puls. (2000). Charleston SC: Matrix Media.
BCC – M1668.8 .S66 2000 (CD)
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