Daughters of the Dust -- Julie Dash, Paperback

A black woman anthropologist from 1920s New York visits the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas and discovers her roots. A look at the culture of the Gullah people, descendants of blacks who intermarried with Native Americans.

Author: Julie Dash
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 02/01/1999
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780452276079
Age Range: 18-UP

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1797

About the Author
Thirty years ago, filmmaker Julie Dash became the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release of a feature film with her Sundance award-winning Daughters of the Dust. The world of the film was the basis for Dash's eponymous debut novel. Her extensive résumé as a film/TV writer and director includes the award-winning drama series Queen Sugar (season 2), created and produced by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey for OWN Television, and the NAACP Image Award-winning The Rosa Parks Story, which was also nominated for Emmy and DGA awards. Today she has several documentary projects in the works and is a Distinguished Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College.