Mojo Workin' : The Old African American Hoodoo System (9780252078767)

In this book, Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald distinguishes between "Old tradition Black Belt Hoodoo" and commercially marketed forms that have been controlled, modified, and often fabricated by outsiders; this study focuses on the hidden system operating almost exclusively among African Americans in the Black spiritual underground.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 248 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 17.78mm | 408.23g
• Publication date 17 Dec 2012
• Publisher University of Illinois Press
• Publication City/Country Baltimore, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0252078764
• ISBN13 9780252078767
• Bestsellers rank 837,620

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