Queye TV Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Documentary
History
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023
1:52
★ 5
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Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.

Cast

Zora Neale Hurston

Self (archive footage)

Vanessa Williams

Narrator (voice)

Bahni Turpin

Zora Neale Hurston (voice)

Lee D. Baker

Self

Crew

Tracy Heather Strain

Writer

Tracy Heather Strain

Director

Randall MacLowry

Producer

Tracy Heather Strain

Producer

Mark Dugas

Editor

Cameo George

Executive Producer

Stephanie Stender

Co-Producer

Daniel Bowen

Music

Nikki Bramley

Director of Photography

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