Pioneering a New Approach to Documenting Black Life | Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Learn how famed author and trained anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston pioneered a groundbreaking methodology that transformed the field of anthropology in these videos adapted from Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Rather than study cultures from a distance, as had previously been done, Hurston set about researching and studying Black life as an insider and participant, an approach that would make her one of the foremost experts on Black folklore.