From the mountains to the sea

Join us  for this series that weaves it way through the tapestry of South Carolina. South Carolina has a rich main character energy. Learn more about it to help you improve your characters, settings, and plots. Discover the richness of the Gullah Geechee in the Low Country. Travel to the time of the Native American tribes of the state. Train up on the importance of South Carolina in US military history starting with the Revolution as we celebrate 250 years of the United States. Feel the rhythm of the Grand Strand with Beach Music. Grab a hot dog and drink as we go out to the ballpark to explore South Carolina and Baseball. From the Mountains to The Sea weave South Carolina through your writing.

Gullah Geechee Disaporas

Gullah-Geechee Diasporas counters romantic portrayals of Gullah-Geechee culture as a static, geographically isolated remnant of the past. Across eight interdisciplinary essays, the book's contributors trace an arc, described in time and space, from pre-Middle Passage Africa through the Caribbean and coastal United States into the interior South and beyond. They consider how Gullah-Geechee cultural traditions are simultaneously rooted in the physical Lowcountry homeland and represent a dynamic cultural ethos that is not bounded by geography and has shaped Black life across North America and the Caribbean Basin. Together, these essays reveal the resilience and adaptability of people whose history defies myths of isolation and immobility. Gullah-Geechee Diasporas is a fresh framework for understanding African American cultural origins, migrations, and transformations.

Muhammad Fraser-Rahim is associate professor of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel. He is the author of America's Other Muslims and Gullah Geechee Muslims in America.

Elizabeth J. West is professor of English and the John B. and Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. Her books include Finding Francis and African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction.