{"id":7467,"date":"2020-04-23T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2020-04-30T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:21:21","slug":"rachel-afusa-ansong-2020-spring-graduate-research-grant-awardee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/rachel-afusa-ansong-2020-spring-graduate-research-grant-awardee\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Afusa Ansong, 2020 Graduate Research Grant Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Akans in the Gullah Geechee is a hybrid poetry and art project that explores Adinkra symbols in South Carolina and Georgia.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>The regions in North America spanning from North Carolina to Florida currently, known as the Gullah Geechee was previously settled by enslaved Africans from West Africa.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although scholars have extensive research on Adinkra symbols from West Africa, they&nbsp;have not yet accounted for ways in which the symbols were initially transferred to the United States. In exploring Savannah and Charleston, Ansong is&nbsp;seeking to discover traces of Akan, West African customs, like Adinkra symbols that enslaved Africans brought to the United States and continued to practice as a way of survival and connection with home.<\/p>\n<p>The Gullah Geechee regions present solid evidence that Adinkra symbols and their beliefs were used by enslaved people as a way of remembering the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akans in the Gullah Geechee is a hybrid poetry and art project that explores Adinkra symbols in South Carolina and Georgia.&nbsp;&nbsp;The regions in North America spanning from North Carolina to Florida currently, known as the Gullah Geechee was previously settled by enslaved Africans from West Africa.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although scholars have extensive research on Adinkra symbols from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[195,162,159,186,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-195","category-graduate-grants","category-grants","category-spring","category-studentnews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7814,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}