Further Resources

Further Reading

Now that you've reached the end of this introduction, you should be capable of tackling more complex and professional sources. When compiling this blog, we had to leave out many relevant and interesting sources. In this list you will find many of those, as well as many of the materials from which we draw our own information. We have grouped them in different categories, enjoy! 

Scholarly Articles:

Abdou, Nora F. 2014. "A Study in Gullah as a Creole language, Supported with a Text Analysis." Linguistics and Literature Studies 2 (2): 58-64. doi: 10.13189/lls.2014.020203

Baird, Keith E. 1980. “Guy B. Johnson Revisited: Another Look at Gullah”. Journal of Black Studies 10 (4): 425–35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2784018.

“Gullah”. 1975. “Gullah”. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications, no. 14. University of Hawai'i Press: 468–80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20006641.

Holm, John. 1983. “On the Relationship of Gullah and Bahamian”. American Speech 58 (4): 303–18. doi:10.2307/455145.

Jones-Jackson, Patricia. 1983. “Contemporary Gullah Speech: Some Persistent Linguistic Features”. Journal of Black Studies 13 (3): 289–303. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2784290.

Matory, J. Lorand. 2008. “The Illusion of Isolation: The Gullah/geechees and the Political Economy of African Culture in the Americas”. Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 (4): 949–80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27563714.

Mufwene, Salikoko S., and Charles Gilman. 1987. “How African Is Gullah, and Why?”. American Speech 62 (2): 120–39. doi:10.2307/455274.

Mufwene, Salikoko S.. 1997. “The Ecology of Gullah's Survival”. American Speech 72 (1): 69–83. doi:10.2307/455608.

Books:

There are several books you can consider for sociolinguistics, although we are particularly fond of these two:

Wardhaug, Ronald and Janet M. Fuller. 2015. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. West Sussex: Blackwell Publishing.

Schneider, Edgar W. 2011. English Around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

As regards Gullah language, refer to Lorenzo Dow Turner's Gullah Dialect Lexicon: Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1949), or Margaret Washington Creel's A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullhas (1988). Our favorite approach to culture is Wilbur Cross's Gullah Culture in America (2007). 

Queen Quet herself has edited and published several anthologies and books of essays about Gullah culture and the Gullah/Geechee Nation. Our source book was WEBE Gullah/Geechee: Cultural Capital & Collaboration Anthology (2015).

Media Resources: 

There are plenty of videos in YouTube besides the one we already used throughout the course. 

Wikitongues has a very interesting (albeit somehow long) approach to Gullah language, where you can appreciate many of the features we've already mentioned. For another very interesting approach (and much shorter), you can check out this video. Fancy something more innovative? Check out this TedxTalk by educator and historian Ron Daise: "Gullah Geechee: The Me I tried to Flee."

Another brief documentary can be found here. In this one, you can get a glimpse of the work Queen Quet is performing. PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) has produced a short ten-minute documentary where history is the master narrative. 

Although the quality of the sound and image is poor, this is an excellent lecture on Gullah history delivered by Dr. Llaila Afrika. Similarly, Dr. Janice Collins is the narrator of this amazing documentary: "A Taste of Gullah."

The Gullah/Geechee Nation has its own YouTube chanel that features frequent updates on the whereabouts of its people and Queen, as well as providing an excellent glimpse into spoken Gullah. 

Websites: 

Ultimategullah.com is a very nice introduction to some key aspects of Gullah Culture. You can also check out the official site of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor for a summary of Gullah culture and more info. This is an amazing website about Gullah by Hilton Head, with some videos and stories worth reading. 

For your inner child, we HIGHLY recommend Gullah Net, an interactive tour of Gullah Culture with Aunt Pearlie Sue! For those, however, that prefer a more formal approach and need sources, Glottolog does feature many more articles and books about the language.