To take place in the Casino Theater

Dr. Melissa Cooper and Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination. The Rutger’s historian and author discusses her book, an intellectual and cultural history that examines the emergence of “the Gullah” in scholarly and popular works during the 1920s and the 1930s. Using Sapelo Island as a case study, Cooper’s manuscript explores the forces that inspired interest in black southerners’ African heritage during the period and also looks at the late twentieth and twenty-first-century legacies of the works that first made Sapelo Islanders famous.

This event is free to Literary Guild members. Click here for your tickets.

Not a member? Join here or join at the event. Guest tickets are $10 each. 

G. J. Ford Bookshop will be selling copies of the book at the event, and we encourage you to purchase your book and have it signed by the author. Our local independent bookstore makes many of our author appearances possible.

Too many books? Why not purchase one, read it and then donate it for our annual book sale or the library?