African American Art History
Daughters of the Dust Essay Questions
Professor Domenic
Due Sunday, February 27, 2022

View the film Daughters of the Dust along with the supporting videos Prof Domenic has listed in Week Six. Before watching the film and answering the questions below, read the following passages from Flash of the Spirit:
Pgs 103 – 113
pgs 132 143 Nzo A Nkisi the Grave
Pgs 142 145 Bottle Trees

You may write this in essay form consider each question a separate paragraph.

1. What do the Sea Islands represent for African Americans?

2. Who are the Gullah People?

3. Where does the name Ibo Landing come from?

4. What is the meaning of the bottle tree in the film? Why does Nana Peazant have to explain its meaning specifically in relation to Eli?

5. What do you think the character Hagar means by HooDoo?

6. There are tombs in the film. What influence do they show?

7. What do you believe is the significance of everyone in the film wearing white?

8. What is the significance of the color indigo?

9. Why is it important to learn about groups of people such as the Gullah in the twenty-first century?

10. Watch carefully! The cosmogram of Kong appears where in the film?

11. Some films are just movies, and others are elevated to the realm of art. What makes this film a work of art?