Contemporary Cultures

Explore world cultures from the 1600 to the present.

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In the late 1990s, the Catawba Nation received federal recognition. Photojournalist and Filmmaker Catherine Bauknight set out to document the revival of the tribe. Her photo essay exhibit at the...

Hip Hop/Rap | Gullah Music

Episode 12

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2

African call-and-response patterns and improvisation survived the Middle Passage and became two of the basic elements of one of today’s most popular forms of music. In the 1970s, rap music began in...

African Music | Gullah Music

Episode 1

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Music was an important tradition in Africa centuries before Africans were brought to America. Singing was a part of everyday life when people were at work, worship or play. The drum was the most...

Charleston Basketweavers | Digital Traditions

Episode 4

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Excerpt from 1986 USC News production. Dale Rosengarten discusses sweetgrass basketry as a part of the Charleston tourist trade, as well as a one of the most highly recognized African-American art...

N Is for Native American | South Carolina from A to Z

Episode 16

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Grades: 1 2 4 5 8

South Carolina is home to eleven Native American tribes. Can you name them all?

S Is for Sweetgrass Baskets | South Carolina from A to Z

Episode 23

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Grades: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Basket maker Vera Manigault talks about the history and culture of Sweetgrass baskets.

G Is for Gullah | South Carolina from A to Z

Episode 9

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Grades: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

What is Gullah? Anita Singleton-Prather and Alphonso Brown explain.

Family Across the Sea, Part 3 | SCETV Specials (1990)

Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Family Across the Sea, Part 3 Anthropologist Joe Opala has studied the history of slavery from the African side of the ocean. He has tracked a remarkable series of connections that end in Charleston...

Family Across the Sea, Part 2 | SCETV Specials (1990)

Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Family Across the Sea, Part 2 A young black scholar named Lorenzo Turner began to research Gullah culture and language. Folklorists and historians who had studied this culture before Turner and...

Pam Corwin | Congaree Swamp Stories

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Congaree Swamp Stories Camp Workshop Speaker What Happened to the Congaree Indians, and Learning from Native American Artifacts, Culture, Foodways and Creation Stories Ms. Pam Corwin, a biologist for...

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