The language you cry in / a film from California Newsreel ; producer/directors, Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano.

Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and...

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Online Access:	Streaming Video (via Alexander Street Press)
Corporate Author:	California Newsreel (Firm)
Other Authors:	Serrano, Angel, Toepke, Alvaro
Format:	Video
Language:	English Mende
Published:	San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
Series:	Black studies in video.
Subjects:	African Americans > Race identity. African Americans > Georgia. Burial > Sierra Leone. Ethnomusicology > Sierra Leone. Folk songs, Mende. Gullahs > Music. Mende (African people) Sierra Leone > Music. Nonfiction films.