{"product_id":"gullah-geechee-diasporas-knowledge-culture-and-black-lowcountry-legacies","title":"Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGullah-Geechee Diasporas \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecounters romantic portrayals of Gullah-Geechee culture as a static, geographically isolated remnant of the past. Across eight interdisciplinary essays, the book's contributors trace an arc, described in time and space, from pre-Middle Passage Africa through the Caribbean and coastal United States into the interior South and beyond. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThey consider how Gullah-Geechee cultural traditions are simultaneously rooted in the physical Lowcountry homeland and represent a dynamic cultural ethos that is not bounded by geography and has shaped Black life across North America and the Caribbean Basin. Together, these essays reveal the resilience and adaptability of people whose history defies myths of isolation and immobility. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGullah-Geechee Diasporas \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eis a fresh framework for understanding African American cultural origins, migrations, and transformations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eEditor(s)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e: Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, Elizabeth J. West \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eContributor(s): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eRas Michael Brown, Rafael Ocasio, Karen Chandler, Jessica Berry, Corrie Claiborne, Christel N. Temple, Latif Tarik\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003cbr\u003ePaperback, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eUniversity of South Carolina Press, July 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e216 p, 6.1 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e× 9.02 in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62886076350623,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1588\/3167\/files\/9781643366395-us.jpg?v=1791398393","url":"https:\/\/store.studiomuseum.org\/products\/gullah-geechee-diasporas-knowledge-culture-and-black-lowcountry-legacies","provider":"STUDIO STORE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}