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Daughters of the Dust

Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture

Description

"A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.

At the dawn of the 20th century, a family in the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors' Yoruba traditions suffers a generational split. Young Hagar wants to move to the mainland away from tradition-bound matriarch Nana. Former prostitute Yellow Mary gets a cold shoulder when she returns to the island with her female lover, especially from her sister Viola."