Zora Neale Hurston
Birthday: 1891-01-07
Place of Birth: Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Biography: Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
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Fieldwork Footage
Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissan...
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Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Chu...
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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard Unive...
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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black wom...
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