Gullah

Coinciding with literary works and their applications, English colloquial languages undeniably create a socioeconomic divide in the United States and in the pursuit of the American Dream. Throughout America, several derivatives of English are spoken, but because these sub-languages are not standard or articulate English, they are viewed as subordinate, subpar, sub-American. To be articulate, as poet and activist Jamila Lyiscott explained in her spoken word essay “3 Ways to Speak English,” is to…

The documentary of Black on White is a series that examines the origins of Black English, including the American slave trade, plantation life, the creole influence, and Harlem’s Jive talk. Also, it discusses the variety of English on White American speech and literature, particularly in the south. 300 hundred years ago west Africa society interfered in the slave trade. The traffic of their lives brought English to their tribes. British and American slavers trading upriver introduced the English…

Every aspect of the film is imbued, created and viewed through the lens of the black female spectator as filmmaker. Nana is arguably the center of the film – she’s an old wise woman and the leader of the Peazant family. She is regarded as the seat of knowledge in the family – which is already a subversion of mainstream cinema that usually gives that type of knowledge to old white men. Nana Peazant’s knowledge is ancestral and cultural, yet gives her the wisdom of any great scholar - the African…

The Charles Pinckney Nation Park is a 28-acre remnant of Charles Pinckney's Snee Farm, a rice and indigo plantation. The farm once fed the Charleston and International markets. On the site is an 1828 Low country coastal cottage that serves as a museum and visitor center. The park is located near Mount Pleasant South Carolina. Most of the original land had been sold for residential development and a golf course. But in 1987, Friends of Historic Snee Farm raised money to buy what was left of…

and he was inspired by the slaves’ revolt in Haiti that led him to begin plotting a revolt in Charleston, South Carolina. Joining to help Vesey in his plot was four of his closest friends by the names of Monday Gell, Peter Poyas, Rolla Bennett and “Gullah” Jack Pritchard, and his wife Beck. In 1822, Vesey planned the revolt to be in the summer when the largest amount of white people would be out of Charleston on vacation. He carefully chooses dependable people; most of those were artisan…

Robert Franke CRJ 410 12/5/2015 Final Paper Justice Clarence Thomas was born in 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, which was a mainly black area that was founded by freed slaves after the Civil War. He was the second ever black judge, in the Supreme Court and was at first not thrilled to working as a judge. As Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States his views are typically from a conservative stand point, and usually wants a solution that limits the power of the federal…

African American Films and Directors in the 1990s Many of the African-American films of the 1980s depicted the community as violent and unsafe. Hollywood was not interested in filming the success stories of thousands of young blacks. And rather than dealing the realities of street life and black neighborhoods, many films portrayed the communities as gang-ridden and violent-- with frequent drive-by shootings and alternating chase sequences. This was because these over-the-top scenes resonated…

The article I read was Charles Jarmon’s, “E. Franklin Frazier’s Sociology of Race and Class in Black America,” from the spring 2013 Edition of The Black Scholar. Jarmon’s article was found using the Infotrac College Edition database. The aim of the article was to observe the origins of Frazier’s sociology career in connection to Howard University, discuss his views on and contribution to understanding the socioeconomic situation of blacks in the United States, and lastly to discuss his view of…

kidnapped and sold into slavery as a child. Aminata Diallo shows that she is a fluent speaker of both her parents' tribes tongues. She begins to learn "the King's English" during her crossing of the Middle Passage, and picks up the slave language of Gullah on an indigo plantation in South Carolina. It is Aminata's facility for languages that allows her to survive and even thrive in the face of danger. Supporting Point • Lawrence Hill uses the character of Aminata to show us how patient some of…

throughout high school as well. I also volunteered for, and continue to each year, the Jekyll Island Beach clean-up and the Brantley County Relay for Life. I was a member of the Center of Academic Success, and through the program visited Sapelo Island’s Gullah festival and…