Mojo workin' the old African American Hoodoo system / [electronic resource] :
Katrina Hazzard-Donald.
- Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press, c2013.
- x, 234 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prescript -- Traditional religion in West Africa and in the new world: a thematic overview -- Disruptive intersection: slavery and the African background in the making of Hoodoo -- The search for High John the Conquer -- Crisis at the crossroads: sustaining and transforming Hoodoo's old black tradition from Emancipation to World War II -- The demise of Dr. Buzzard: black belt Hoodoo between the two World Wars -- Healin' da sick, raisin' da daid: Hoodoo as health care, root doctors, midwives, treaters -- Black belt Hoodoo in the post-World War II cultural environment -- Postscript.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Hoodoo (Cult) Vodou--United States. African American magic. Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--United States. African Americans--Religion. African Americans--Folklore.