Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System Art & Culture and grief as an entry

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Red Africa is not simply an exercise in nostalgia

Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System Art & Culture and grief as an entryA bold reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practice Katrina Hazzard Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional