Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald
English | December 17, 2012 | ISBN: 0252037294, 0252078764 | EPUB | 248 pages | 1.7 MB
English | December 17, 2012 | ISBN: 0252037294, 0252078764 | EPUB | 248 pages | 1.7 MB
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.