Zora Neale Hurston

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