Zora Neale Hurston

Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism

November 27, 2023November 8, 2023 Dylan O’Hara black intellectual history, FWP, literature, New Deal, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston

J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways

Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

March 30, 2023March 23, 2023 Ida E. Jones Anthropology, black feminism, book review, Womanism, Zora Neale Hurston

As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.

Flavors of Florida: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk Ecologies

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, Black Ecologies, black intellectual history, Black women, Caribbean, ethnography, Jim Crow, Zora Neale Hurston

While Zora Neale Hurston’s innovative ethnographic methodologies — including first-hand accounts of her own hoodoo/voodoo initiations — are celebrated by white

Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement

July 25, 2018July 31, 2018 Sharla M. Fett literature, slave trade, slavery, Zora Neale Hurston

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

Depiction of a zombie in a sugarcane field at twilight. Jean-Noël Lafarge. Photo credit: Wikipedia.

America’s Enslaved Dead

October 31, 2016October 30, 2016 Brandon Byrd Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston

On Sunday, November 8, 1936, Zora Neale Hurston received the exciting news: there was a zombie at the hospital in