Dispossession of Land Cultures: Women and Property Tenure Among Lowcountry Heirs in the Gullah Geechee Corridor

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Author(s): Robin Throne (Northcentral University, USA)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 23
Source title: Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Uche T. Onyebadi (Texas Christian University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5079-2.ch007

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities / Sociology

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This chapter examined and presents the results of a heuristic and arts-based research and ongoing critical review of the Lowcountry heirs' property ownership and the recurrent generational challenges, governmental influences, and tourism impact on land dispossession and retention along the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. In critically investigating this phenomenon of land dispossession, this study relied on Leavy's concept of coherence as it assessed the paucity of contemporaneous narratives of voices of women landowners. Land tenure, voice and land dispossession, freedom as ownership, and the culture of home/place are also explored as the legacy of the African diaspora, specifically among women landowners.

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