Zora Neale Hurston was a Black author and anthropologist who was also an anti-assimitationalist. Consistently and defiantly antiracist, Hurston criticized other Black leaders—such as Du Bois—for their elitist tendencies and tendency to think badly of poor, Southern Black people. Hurston’s talent and political outlook were ahead of their time and she did not receive sufficient recognition or money during her life. After her death, however, her work became widely read and celebrated. Many consider her book Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) to be one of the best American novels of all time.
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Chapter 26: Media Suasion
...Du Bois and his ideas. Calling themselves the “Niggerati,” this group includes Wallace Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston , who at one time is a student of Franz Boas. This group may be...
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Chapter 27: Old Deal
Zora Neale Hurston is singular in her steadfast antiracism. Yet she struggles to make a living, despite writing...
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Chapter 28: Freedom Brand
...of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” At age 64, Zora Neale Hurston is one of few voices to acknowledge the problem with assuming that Black schools could...
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