Her research focused on the Caribbean and the American South, immersing herself in the cultures and collecting their folklore, showing how the folklore contributed to the community’s identity. "Mule Bone: Langston Hughes And Zora Neale Hurston's Dream Deferred Of An African-American Theatre Of The Black Word." African American Review 35.1 (2001): 77-92. Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942) Hurston got her Bachelor’s in Anthropology in 1928, becoming the first Black female anthropologist. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 18, 103-108. ![]() The political incorectness of Zora Neale Hurston. Born in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated all-Black city, Hurston studied anthropology at Barnard College in New York with famed scholar Franz Boas. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 39, 104-108.īorders, F. Boas was hostile to sweeping theories of human nature and society. Zora Neale Hurston: The Howard university years. Zora Neale Hurston, Leslie Spier, Jules Henry, and Ashley Montagu. ![]() Id love to know where those 600 photographs are. Find Boyd's article in the JSTOR database, she provides a rich and entertaining account of Zora's time at Howard University.īoyd, V. Tracy Heather Strain: When Zora Neale Hurston writes to Franz Boas, and you can see the letter in the film, she talks about she has 95,000 words, but she also mentions that she has 600 photographs in that letter.
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