Its African Roots
Heather L. Hodges is the executive director of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor National Heritage. “Indigo dye is deeply rooted in African culture,” she told Atlas Obscura. She also said that the color is “is widely used by Gullah Geechee visual artists and filmmakers as a way of expressing their shared… heritage and history with indigo cultivation.”
Its African Roots
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Daughters Of The Dust
For one, you are going to find an indigo theme running through Daughters of the Dust. Julie Dash made the movie. The use of color shows how the characters had to interact with their pasts. It made history as the first film by an African-American woman to be distributed in the nation.
Daughters Of The Dust
