The language you cry in
Alvaro Toepke
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The language you cry in
by Alvaro Toepke, Angel Serrano
Published
1998
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pages
52
Description
Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them.
Subjects
The Mende of Sierra Leone
Africans There/Africans Here
Royal antelope and spider
A conceptual scheme for use in study of African political systems in transition
An Introduction to Pre-Colonial History of the Mende of Sierra Leone (African Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 67.)
Deep Mende
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Who is the author of The language you cry in?
The language you cry in was written by Alvaro Toepke, Angel Serrano.
When was The language you cry in published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 1998. The original work may have been published on a different date.