Keith Rushing

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How to Be a Better Human · How to understand your family history (w/ Keith Rushing) · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And that was something that kind of compounds this for Black people.

I think if you run into people who are, you know, they may know a great grandfather is from, you know, France or England or wherever, or I've met people who said, I'm descended from the Mayflower.

And as you said, like folks who come from a very elite background and know that lineage, part of the process of slavery was being torn from ethnicities in West Africa

The oppression was to disconnect you from that culture.

And then I think just the pain of something that's extremely difficult to talk about that, you know, so far, I think for people who lived through enslavement, a lot of times those stories didn't get passed down with good reason.

Like, you know, the most traumatic things that people go through, they don't necessarily want to share.

But then for Generations Removed, we just have like this, what I describe as a void in the book and just like something's missing.

There is that kind of dichotomy, I think, for folks who have been through a kind of a level of oppression and systemic kind of rupture that African-Americans have.

So Gullah Geechee is, just to contextualize it, it's a group of people in the Gullah Geechee corridor is kind of from the very southern part of North Carolina, like Cape Fair, North Carolina, and it goes along the east coast to Jacksonville, Florida.

So this is the region in which people who are described as Gullah Geechee come from.

And it's considered to be the most African of African-American cultures.

And I think

what are identifiers for people are, you know, there's a Creole language that people speak that really developed in West Africa.

So in West Africa, where you had trade,

With European nations and England, even before the slave trade, you had this Creole language develop.

But it's intelligible to people who speak Gullah Geechee and people who speak, say, Creole in Sierra Leone, which is where a lot of people who are Gullah Geechee originated.

You have this kind of connection and this kind of holding on to African culture.

And I think it shows up in foods.

I talk in my book about red rice and jollof rice.

which have been described as cousins, like very similar dishes.

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