鈥榃e had lighter tongues鈥? Making and mediating Gullah/Geechee personhood in the South Carolina Lowcountry
- 作者：Krystal A. Smalls ; ksmalls@upenn.edu ; [Author Vitae]
- 关键词：Gullah ; Language ideology ; Education
- 刊名：Language and Communication
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：79_02715309
- 类别：soc
- 出版时间：April, 2012
- 卷：32
- 期：2
- 页码：147-159
- 文件大小：600 K
摘要
Two historic institutions in the South Carolina Lowcountry, the Avery Institute/Avery Research Center and Penn School/Penn Center, played a central role in cultivating a complex Gullah community through the construction of construable and consumable Gullah identities. This ethnography explores how the ideological transitions undergone by these two institutions over the past 80 years have helped to shape conceptualizations of selfhood and belonging in local communities. These ideological transitions, initially mediated via formal schooling, and 鈥榯ranslated鈥?in later years into cultural preservation and revitalization efforts, have engendered new and robust forms of Gullah selfhood and Gullah belonging in which Gullah ways of speaking, but not a bounded Gullah language鈥攖ogether with an idea of Gullah sincerity鈥攈ave become key components in local community- and nation-building efforts.