Beyond the classroom: South Carolina educators use food to teach Gullah Geechee culture

New programs in the state work to teach high school and college students about Gullah foodways through hands-on projects When students from Charleston county school of the arts in South Carolina entered a research institute on the African diaspora, staff greeted them with “welcome home”. The field trip at the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture was the culmination of a six-week English course about memoir. Students learned about the culture o...

By Melissa Hellmann