| Publications [#237718] of J. Lorand Matory
Essays, Articles, Chapters in Books
- Matory, JL, Islands Are Not Isolated: Reconsidering the Roots of Gullah Distinctiveness,
in Grass roots: African origins of an American art, edited by Rosengarten, D; Rosengarten, T; Schildkrout, E; Carney, JA
(September, 2008),
pp. 232-244, University of Washington Press, Long Island City, NY, ISBN 9780945802518 [repository]
(last updated on 2024/04/23)
Abstract: In this investigation of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket becomes a prism through which to explore 300 years of American and African history.
Keywords: Gullahs, Geechees, African Americans, black Americans, South Carolina, Georgia, African culture in the Americas, Baskets and Basketry
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