Daughters of the Dust

Daughters of the Dust is a 1991 film about a turn-of-the-century African-American Gullah family on the verge of change. They are to embark on a journey to a different place and a different way of being. It is a story of the tension from the choice that each family member has to make between staying behind on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and going into the industrialized North to be assimilated into the greater culture of the mainland. The 88-year-old grandmother Nana (Cora Lee Day) represents the old ways and expresses her desire for the younger members of the family to remember the old ways even as they embrace the new. The Peazant family is steeped in the West African derived Gullah traditions and longing to find its place in the greater world. The filmmaker, Julie Dash, weaves this tension together with beautiful imagery and music. Ms. Dash was inspired to tell the tale by visits to her Gullah grandmother made with her father. MORE [EDIT]

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Release Date: 1991

Duration: 1:52:00

Director: Julie Dash

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