Series: Anthropology's Ancestors

Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's life and work through a decolonial lens, Zora Neale Hurston traces her journey from her early life (1891-1919) and struggles at the margins (1920-1930) to her peak as a pioneering ethnographer and writer (1931-1956) and her later years (1957-1960). Examining her navigation of a hostile academic environment, it highlights her redefinition of Black autonomy and diasporic...