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Born in Alabama and raised in Florida, Hurston (1891-1960) was an anthropologist, novelist, and folklorist. As a creative writer, she authored such famous works as Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934). As a folklorist, she went on expeditions, gathering folklore for works like Mules and Men (1935). For her anthropological training, she completed undergraduate studies at Howard University and Barnard College and graduate studies at Columbia University. She first became acquainted with Oluale Kossola while she was at Barnard College. Her advisor, Dr. Franz Boas, known as the father of anthropology, sent her to meet him. The objective of that first visit was to “get a firsthand report of the raid that had brought him to America and bondage” (36). This visit, and her anthropological training overall, led her to develop a friendship with Kossola and interview him for what became Barracoon.
Although Hurston studied anthropology, it was important to her that her research practices differed from standard practices that regarded studied peoples as objects. Plant (the 21st-century editor of Barracoon) writes in her introduction to the text that Hurston “rejected the objective-observer stance of Western scientific inquiry for a participant-observer stance” (24). This is especially significant in the study of an African—Kossola—given the long history of racist scholars and intellectuals deeming Africans as lacking humanity.
By Zora Neale Hurston
Drenched in Light
Drenched in Light
Zora Neale Hurston
Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Zora Neale Hurston
How It Feels To Be Colored Me
How It Feels To Be Colored Me
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Jonah's Gourd Vine
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Zora Neale Hurston
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Zora Neale Hurston
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
Mules and Men
Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston
Seraph on the Suwanee
Seraph on the Suwanee
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Spunk
Spunk
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Sweat
Sweat
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Tell My Horse
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Zora Neale Hurston
The Eatonville Anthology
The Eatonville Anthology
Zora Neale Hurston
The Gilded Six-Bits
The Gilded Six-Bits
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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