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Cash, Floris Barnett. 1995. "Kinship and quilting: An examination of an African-American tradition." The Journal of Negro              History 80 (1): 30-41. https://doi.org/10.2307/2717705
 

Chave, Anna C. 2008. "Dis/cover/ing the quilts of Gee's Bend, Alabama." The Journal of Modern Craft 1 (2): 221-253.                     https://doi.org/10.2752/174967808X325514
 

Duffy, Karen M. 2007. Review of The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Journal of American Folklore. 120 (475): 94-96.                                       https://doi.org/10.2752/174967808X325514
 

Phillips, Victoria F. 2007. "Symposium: Commodification, Intellectual Property and the Quilters of Gee's Bend." American                University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 15 (2): 358-377.
 

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 2004. "Anatomy of a quilt: the Gee's Bend freedom quilting bee." Southern Cultures 10 (3):
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Sims, Martha and Martine Stephens. 2011. Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions.                     Utah: Utah State University Press.
 

Sohan, Vanessa. 2015. “’But a Quilt Is More’: Recontextualizing the Discourse(s) of the Gee’s Bend Quilts.” College                            English 77 (4): 294–316. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24240050.

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Souls Grown Deep. n.d. “Gee’s Bend.” Accessed November 12, 2023.
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Jessie Pettiway String-pieced columns 1950.webp

Photo of Jessie T. Pettway's "String-pieced columns" circa 1950  courtesy of Smithsonian Magazine.

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