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Daughters of the Dust

The Making of an African American Woman's Film

Julie Dash · 1991

The script, the sixteen-year struggle to make it, and a conversation with Bell Hooks.

A companion volume to Julie Dash’s 1991 film about a Gullah family on the eve of leaving the Sea Islands, the first feature by an African American woman to get a general US theatrical release. It collects the screenplay, production stills, an account of the sixteen years it took to make, and a long conversation between Dash and Bell Hooks.

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Marya E. Gates

Film Critic and Author

this book includes the script, an enlightening dialogue between Dash and Bell Hooks, as well as the story behind the film

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