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American experience. Zora Neale Hurston : claiming a space / produced by Randall MacLowry, Tracy Heather Strain ; written and directed by Tracy Heather Strain ; a Film Posse, Inc. production for American Experience.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hurston, Zora Neale.
- African American women--Southern States--Biography.
- African American women.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Folklorists--United States--Biography.
- Folklorists.
- Genre:
- Biographical television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Claiming a space
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. This is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Vanessa Williams ; voice of Zora Neale Hurston, Bahni Turpin.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 25, 2023).
- OCLC:
- 1378913398
- Publisher Number:
- ASP5449623/marc
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