Thank you so much. This panel, i let myself in enough income a century and more. I have the pleasure of introducing the moderator for todays discussion, jasmine griffin. She is an author at five books for the focus of your steadiest cultural history. Shes a professor clever university of english and africanamericans daddies. Her current book is titled toward an intellectual history of the women. Ladies and gentlemen, Farah Jasmine griffin. Thank you and good afternoon. I know youre here because you love her sin. Cant hear . That better . Already. Ill keep talking until you can hear me. Ill try to speak a little more loudly. Is that any better . I know youre here because you love Zora Neale Hurston, not because this is one of the only airconditioned venues today. It is wholly appropriate today that we have this panel on someone here in harlem, which is a place for she calls home, a place that inspires mr. Roemer, a place that started her career. This year will mark the 100th anniversary of her earth and she continues to be a writer in a figure who mesmerizes us. We are fortunate to be joined by a group of people who had been quite a bit of time speaking about someone in the context in which he lived and worked. After some ultra brief introduction to open it up and have a discussion and then we will open it up to you. First speaker is transcendent, a beloved friend in college and in many ways like herself, she writes in multiple forms. Shes an accomplished poet here shes the author author of a beautiful novel that i recommend you read if you have time or even if you dont have time. She was also a literary scholar having written one of the most important on Toni Morrison. She teaches at barnard college. She will be our first speaker. Cheryl wall is a leading scholar. I cant they give anyone who knows more about zora huston. Shes the author of black women writers, lineage in tradition and women in the harlem renaissance and shes a beloved Professor Rutgers University in New Brunswick department of english. Our final speaker is transfixed. Many of you may know mitch. He has quite a profile as a curator of important cultural figure in our art scene. A writer, a scholar of hurston. He is the coeditor of a special issue. As well as contributing editor at the James Baldwin revealed. Please show me in welcoming these extraordinary speakers and writers. Back there is never enough time to talk about zora hurston. I would simply question that would now meet our panel to give Opening Statements at out there thought on Zora Neale Hurston. If you are able to consider this question in the context, although whatever you say i think will actually interest the question. Why should we still read Zora Neale Hurston 100 years after her birth . Start with you that. First i want to say how wonderful it is to be on the panel and particularly because this panel [inaudible] i really am pretty themed im just going to join the glory [inaudible] is so important to us particularly because there are two in her life that often says something about the way we read between her and her writing. Her mother who encouraged her and her father who said dont get too uppity because to make light folks nervous and able take it. And those two may seem to be a think about someone jumping in the form of all the forms of writing, which went for the anthropologists coming to fiction writers come in the sas, the singer and the other was the person who had to negotiate those scary hurdles senator ring , the systems on containment that her father warned her about. I think that when we read hurston now, we often can played with her writing. This is absolutely an ethical issue to read her surmountable assay as the writer and read her writing and we may see some wonderful things as were doing that. One of the earlier panels to get children to read your reading is a form of listening and hurston understood this so powerfully. If we are nervous about president obama and nervous about being too black in the eyes of the congress, we also cant be nervous about what seems to be impossible, improbable brief speech. I dont think president obama would ever yell when she won second prize for her play. She wasnt a mirror. This maybe was a different time. I think what she did what she found a way to negotiate the literacy and behave very better father said she needed to observe and i think young people today remains a critical issue to keep showing up again and again and again. That is not a name shot. Good afternoon. I am happy to be with all of you and i do believe with farah. Thank you for moderated discussion. The title of detail i love myself for some name that i think is a wonderful starting to point because we take it for granted in this area of children being raised to have selfesteem , the children necessarily have selfesteem. Someone came up in a time when nobody loved white people. Most black people did not love her people and the fact that she did without hesitation in fact sets her apart. I believe that is the first lesson we can learn and one of the reasons we continue to read her. I imagine most of you have read their eyes are watching god is the pleasure of reading. I laughed out loud every time i read it, even though i fretted a few dozen times. I do try to read sub six out loud. They will say i cant understand. I cant read this. And i tell them, go home, read it aloud just as it is written. And if you do that, you will hear the beauty and the humor in that language. To follow up on the comment, zora hurston listens to the way ordinary black people spout that she wasnt ashamed of how we speak. She loved how we speak. She decided on the first page that people on the porch passed through their amount if there is nothing black people couldnt talk about and didnt have an opinion about. She took it seriously added time when that was not the norm. Sometimes even today, we are good to play, play sports. She took our opinions seriously. I do believe that is something we can and should continue to emulate. It gives us pleasure. It brings us joy. She has much to teach us about loving ourselves. I think that is a really important question why zora hurston wrote that 100 years after her birth. For me, it came into my life in a 16 minute in the country for four years. I was reading the deleted as they see trump. All these really european tax. So she became in a moment in my life, which in some ways, why are you building the library . I went to the library and that excavated things that were nourishing to me and ive Read Everything in the early part and a late teens. What i found was this example because she was incredibly productive. But she was also contradictory. In a profound way she was a republican. She was doing all these things. She said that in 1943 letter, shes going to go the way of her online. She is fiercely independent, a sovereign south which is also important for reading everything together so much as a kind of early literary process, but also something to get me through a different kind of education was that, like she says, basically that history is what shes made of, where shes been, what shes done. So for me, she serves as a model now despite that was kind of tragic, but she is someone who said she was for social justice at the same time kind of anachronistic. You couldnt pin her down. And so, that bottle is a very different spirit. She is also one of the most really have minds and hilarious figures of the elderly and 20th century. She is just that good again, because of where she died, she reminds me a little bit of black women remains to my mind last week, which is kind of stunning and ill say this. Ive heard about it. Kimberly crenshaw asked people to stand up with the names of the black men who were killed. Everyone stood up and remaining up and when they made the black woman was killed, everyone took their seats. And so, i think her voice a feminist impulse and literature with kind of ugly correspondence they are that is timely, contemporaneous and reminds us of the work we do. So that is my opening. Thats wonderful. Theres so many of ways they can go with what it should be said. Two things im hearing that i would like to follow up on his one year back in sherrill, but also rich. If you could talk about hurstons use of language, what she does that is so unique and rare and also we can think about something rich set and follow it up with the contradiction. Her contradictions are so fascinating and you know, also art inquiries as well. Lets start with the language and maybe talk about her contradictions. I have to Pay Attention to write something more. I was thinking, you know, in this wonderful new book put out, i love myself and im lobbying, the intruder as they is by alice walker. Hurston still makes many of us nervous and uncovered her boat and she talks about the friend who says they dont think i would have liked her. The reason they wouldnt have liked her is because of her behavior at a price event when she had received that second prize for color strip. I was one a call at color count. She walked into that surprisingly and yelled at me about the prize for walkers friend comment is was just really assigned they wouldnt like us. But i think that is important. She does not too near and she just does what someone else had done earlier and american muslims for which he receives and was elevated to the highest. Im speaking of course of walt whitman. So the selfproclaimed world. Well, he cleared the air and was lauded for her. I think it was all who live clearing the air. The way she did it was sent with a certain kind of masculine provided. I think she did it in a way, their eyes are watching god, the beautiful language. So i just want to read this. There is this moment where you see her achieving. This actually so many, but this is one. Shes moving between the poles on the other polls that are so parallel that her parents laid out for her. What is proper for a College Educated propriety of expression, they are all fair. She says i can do it. And then the simultaneity and legitimacy of the other way of knowing that she carries. And also what i would like to say or instances when she finds her own other ways are very important. She writes my search for many it seems to me in too many strange places and adventures. This is a straight forward sent to establishing, foreshadowing. The past tense can contain, can stabilize and secure. My life was in danger and they continues her brother ordinary progress. And then in the way of storytelling, there is a shift from the personal to the general and we glimpsed the language she has learned from anthropology. It is the language that we will criticize for an anthropology itself had to unlearn those terms. She writes primitive minds are quick to sunshine and quick to anger. Anthropology begins this interest, but her writing is already in that double quickness. Quick to sunshine, quick to anger. The security is so noticeably stabilize. She writes some little word to move to love for sticking a knife between your ribs. Someone is close by looking and raked areas you feel and perhaps move toward her, too. The past is now. It is here. Im going to make me a graveyard of my own. It is also staking out the future. Im then im going to make. Hurston is in polk county where the water tasted like cherry wine with the trees of acts of muscle. Did you see beginning to lose their proper boundaries and in one of those fake sawmill turpentine railroad jobs places with a lot of flags. And then she sent the song has issued me. Narrow margins in she margins in a the pros and what i would like to call it the next margin of obedient and the right margin of adventure. She makes it visible and audible. She put exclamation marks. And it is a broad and the word that is saying something that is holding the place for the word that is yet to come. Id like to think that is where you see the left and the right the writer inventing. We make brief affair. We may feel the breath and it may not be. It may not be the hurston what we want to make stable because she sure doesnt want to be stable. I just want to bring that language device. She brings all of everything she has to bear to reading someone to reading someone commits a thank you for sharing your reading with us. To bounce off the bat, a couple things stand out. First of all, in polk county, florida a oneman traveling by herself, a one man who is a student and there she is a democrat working cant in polk county where she doesnt just show up and say im here to teach you. She doesnt show up to say i am here for an hour, an afternoon, she stays overnight and for days she goes with this group of people working with them as they worked. She joins the community and im always humbled by hurstons example as a scholar, where we speak and we do work hard and we do take our work seriously. But some of us commitment is just beyond anything that any of us have asked. So here she is going to talk about how she has the language of her education and the language of the people that she was working with. I once interviewed one of her classmates from Howard University in jacksonville, florida, where one of hurstons brothers had run a Grocery Store for many years. She didnt want me to know that after howard, zora really went backward. I knew what she meant was that hurston had started or rather resumed speaking in the way that she had spoken before she got to howard. For this one man, alice not a sign of her going backwards, but a sign of her coming more fully into herself. She refused this idea that black people spoke the way they did and by that i mean to be specific, rural southern black people spoke the way they did because they didnt know any better. They hadnt had enough education. They spoke the way they did because that is how they got through their words and their words were in fact beautiful and this idea of how do i get that on the page, that wasnt an easy thing. I love the way she is taken not passage and she does it in multiple places and her writing, sometimes to help his hero preacher in the survey. Sometimes to help us to help us here to read the other folk singers. Its not easy to render the oral culture is literate. That takes a lot of skill as any of us know and try to transcribe the conversation weve had with our friend on the phone last night. It will be a challenging day. So write that in the wake somebody else can read it and understand it. Hurston have that commitment to capture that erases them, that ud on the page. Again that is one of the things that tourists back to the language. I am thinking that both the language and the contradiction go handinhand for me. And this moment for me i am thinking more about what he said in 1943, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a letter at the Research Foundation in new orleans. And yeah, shes going through a lot of stuff. Shes so enough to look at me a thing about language, a Certain Community of literary figures, but black writers who want to join the bandwagon at the moment. What is interesting in saying all of that, she is, how do i say this, shes talked about how the virus only kind of the religion of the rings of america. She also said jazz in different pieces in her work, which kind of corresponds, which corresponds to the expression in the 1930s how to shoot as the will to adore them, just part and parcel of black life. But in the beginning of that letter, she talks about the metaphor being primitive. Someone for me with a proverb for the last of tall tales as they will embrace of the sophistication of black language. But she said just a way of privilege income they start way of reading not, to illustrate, she says is much easier than to explain. Think about the critics for her. She herself in a moment is really complicated. Suggesting that is primitive. In jamaican language, for instance, you move high cotton. Think about how amazing to kind of turn your hand. All the ways in which that is not at all a sign of permanent mass. But she also in another moment i shared with the students, on page 87, you can look this up, where she says theres something about positivity that smells like death in underground caves, the soul lives in the air. People can be [inaudible] do you hear what im saying . That is Zora Neale Hurston breakin at down. She talks for the first time and its kind of a binary about her complex since her dad, she has been claimed by feminists, but not conservatives, by black nationalist, by last days and most recently by libertarians. How can any one person leave a legacy that is up for grabs in that way . Do we have not thought not . I think that speaks to what you are saying and we were all saying that she has this contradict or a person. I think she would say do i contradict myself . I contradict myself, that is condition of being contradict jury is for her the human condition. So she is not going to apologize for it. It was at the end of her life and even in the 19 more days, politically very traveling to put it mildly. But it grows out of a booker t. Washington perspective that is the perspective with which she was raised and she was educated in eatonville, florida and of which she was proud. The people who founded the school and eatonville has been educated under booker t. Washington. The whole philosophy of eatonville with selfhelp, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. At that time, at the turn of the 20th century, that is not an unconventional philosophy for black americans in general. Most black americans would have endorsed that. Was that one is not able to do it seems to me is evolved. By the time she raised politically, by 1954 when she writes a letter to the editor of your offensive off same day as decision is an insult to black people because we dont need black children to be in school with black children in order to learn something. We are learning just fine in eatonville. Locally, personally that they have been true. Politically, that its just a reactionary position. How can that be descended . It can be explained. And i think it can be explained by her biography. But i dont think that is what we take away. I mean, the contradiction i think is so important to mind. So thank you for coming back to this a little bit. What is important about it is its a bit show up in so many ways as cheryl sein and theres no way to reconcile her republicanism except to say that we are all differently to quit. The way i reconcile that i guess because of her literary out to in so many ways. And so she turned that the now present you with, which in the early moments certainly you kind of charter. It goes back to the beginning. You are never unsure that she loves black people. So youre kind of come views and disoriented by it, youre never concerned by it. What i realized is a certain kind of black inferiority. They walked in, flashing lights out. Let me know they have not granted by people as a matter of being excluded from citizenship and how they are perceived in the imagination. And the consequences she is so nourishing and although shes done and that she did dance with her death. The kind of minor were facing simultaneously, so the contradiction is that the contradiction of American Life already. You talk about violence in one hand at the same time a party that romanticize the colorful primitive ways its just incredible that we get that. I still regulate eatonville and tuskegee because of what i call to the polls and her parents life. It actually was between the boy and washington say thanks that status quo. It is of course the issue that comes up again and shove it away. There was a class. Sort of the old late to find out by. I think her mothers family did think it was better than the fathers family. So i think she did also inherits some of those tension. I also dont want to let her off the period there is evidence where shes on the subway and she makes it utterly, completely unacceptable remark about lack people embarrassingly. I cant even remember the exact language. I think that there are many and that is what others eyes. She is not the proper past tense. She is not contained stable. Shoes cant really be making herself because there was no space. I think that we also have to understand her as someone who is in process. Yet as she got older, there was nowhere else for her to go. So to say that, i think that her writing is full of all of these conflicts. And we should read not only their eyes are watching god. One small thing thats really important. What does it mean that trained his conviction was brought up to a moral charge in 1948 and she was found out working at the main at the same time trying to make a living as a writer. That to me as i give it although she produced, given all the same, that she was always struggling to literally feed herself. The contradictions of a certain thing that should be appropriate to did that work and she was discovered is really kind of shocking to me. For now, she was brought up for moral charge and she was not an asset. But the question the contradiction, no one has said it. Her champion and the editor of the volume that we are here to recognize, what did it mean to be, an artist and my mothers time. My grandmothers time. What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist. There was nospace, so this process, as you say, constantly inventing herself, trying to claim a space to speak at all was an ongoing struggle nics the back rows of alabama, florida, louisiana, writers of insert showed black people at a time when mav into a symphony and the basis of the novel. I want to honor these Cultural Expressions for themselves. So i think yes i argue in a regular basis and have done so for many years. But there are those moments when i sit back of the integrity to do what she did. Had one last question. So if you could leave our audience with something that you think they should read, not only that moves you, that compels you and what might that be. The significant [inaudible] i would recommend two things. One is the short story that was inspired in 1926 with the language and concern for first item of africanamerican folklore collected and edited by an africanamerican in 1935 and some of us, the phrases in stories the event that we have her in our family is and again stories that are just laugh out loud funny. Sometimes deeply unsettling. It took me a long time to figure out how to teach because why did god make me black . Thats not an easy story to teach in a classroom. And then you say well, why would people asked such a story . Why would that be a folktale . When everything in your life, if you were a southerner and early decades of the 20th century and the u. S. Out, where you live, you love, where you work, for everything depended on whether you are black or white. So when you think about that, that does not become a tail. Its not funnier is that embarrassing. Isnt this an example of people are really trying to come to terms with what is existential in their lives. No question is more important. So also a funny moment. I want to save Read Everything. Partly because the book is so malik of mythology and truths of fact. Shes elusive in the second target in. As someone with that kind of go and tell my horse. The first person to write the account in jamaica. Which no one talks about that much. And also the expression read it. Youve got time. We see just these contradictions. We see hurston who has a disability before using that word. And so moments so i think you get all a hurston weve been talking about. And i agree with the characteristics just because it is just so wonderful to see her take it so seriously and talk about how when you go into a black persons house and everything is on an angle or how we turned nouns into verbs. Whenever i hear somebody use the word conversation, i think about someone. That is not bad english. Thats an inventiveness. We make it exist. Someone has sat, which i think is so beautiful. For me it just embodies that. So lets open it up. Hangs for this wonderful panel. The writing award at Columbia University i really appreciate what you bring with all the contradictions and why it was important make me think about Zora Neale Hurston that is instruct as far understanding of black women today. How is she president today . How is she a role model for a better life can be instructive talking about black womanhood today. Well, i would say first about the importance of knowing myself, that we talk about the politics of flexibility which are still with us. We talk about whether one must defer, to do right by their one can assert her own opinion. I think hurston is modeling that for us all the time it she is modeling for us at the end of handing that there is consequences. That there may be some blowback, but that the importance of understanding who one is send expressing what one thinks is just paramount. And they arise the product of enslavement, and beyond the legacy of slavery. I just want to be free. At the same time, because she has a great imagination to think thats what she gives the willingness to imagine to put us there. What i would like to just introduces how do we treat her now. Just one thing. Im seeing us with fear and trembling. The daughter, the mother of us all. The recognizable woman to which we can relate. I think that in no way oriented Stores Expect him her to keep nurturing us. I think that shes doing something else. Another role for the kind of woman but i just want to say i want to say in addition to what has been said beautifully and what you just said about not to conflate her personal life with her professional life, but i think as i said earlier, something about how dogged she can be in all the different ways that i mention theres a certain vulnerability about like women not being treated seriously. She is a serious american writer. But shes not just a black woman writer. She is a writer of extraordinary skill. But she died in the way she did. Dont get me wrong, theres something about that demise, the fact that robert hemingway, her biographer says about alex walkers placement that there is no way walker can know exactly where she was buried. Think about that for a second. Kind of an honorary gravestone. So her exit in this realm and not winning and in the nursing home, while she is still writing reminds me of the work that we all need to do about understanding what it means to be a black woman in america. It reminds me of how unfulfilled the democratic promise has been and that we really dont understand that lack women are part of that. That is what she does to me in relation to all of the stuff thats really nourishing, i would say in a contemporary moment, we really have to reckon with that. We really do. Yes. As a contemporary of marcus garvey, based on your collective research, have you found any pan african influence and her writing or been influenced by garvey during that time. Published of these two poems in world the newspaper that garvey published. She was certainly conscious enough of his work that she sent her poems to that publication. Im not trying to suggest because she is not, but she is interested in this kind of asking him to escort community, the areas at the end of subset go to them talk and they are working really as migrant workers. That is a Diaspora Community and constantly her narrators making us aware of the fact that they are bohemian in the community, that there are other people and that they are working cooperatively she doesnt pay enough attention to the capitalist system that they are all working for. And among themselves they are working with each other. What is interesting talking about her conservatism, she says Wide Association disavowed something, a wonderful phrase and so if we must die, we must basically reproduce this palm is one of her east coast. Im sending this one out. It reminds me of a transport connection in harlem in jamaica much like marcus garvey. [inaudible] and its hard to reconcile and the only time shes critical of the u. S. And the railway is when she sees that engaging in a form of colonialism that it doesnt want to call colonialism. But shes never looking outside of the United States i want to thank the panel is because what you thought don is to galvanize me to go home and read one of hurstons book ive had a high and the bad forever. Got one . Thats the one i want to go home and read. I think is something she said. They out all the pot. And then thinking, we say Toni Morrison has said language must not select, but i like the way hurston mixer language sweat. I love the way she does that. I have a bottle tree in my front yard. Its not a real rooster, but its a ceramic rooster. She said keeper rooster in your yard because i got a ceramic rooster. I am thinking of folks who had done a lot of Research Early on. And then and that shabby. You are bringing back my interest further than her. She was working on a biography of julius caesar. My question is, what is the genesis of that . How did she come about choosing not. She was always interested in the bible. The title comes from a baptist preachers daughter. Shes raised in the church and she was always fascinated with religion, so i would not ever say that she was traditionally religious person. She even said that black people are christians really. Her spirituality was heterodox. I feel so honored, so privileged. Im a fourthgeneration storyteller for children and i am also with the arizona hero and air excited that i was coming here. My question, ive been fortunate to teach literacy to children from k12 and i want to incorporate. I have hundreds of stories that ive read and adopt it, but i want to incorporate this incredible these stories are wonderful. She didnt like him. They belong to us but you have a recommendation. Cheryl nelson from the Zora Neale Hurston center, i incorporate childrens literature in my course rupe that is coursework, the one they love the best is Zora Neale Hurston of the china berry tree. If you would like one to start with, that would be a great one. There is also when entitled the three which is and that is a good one as well. I have copies at home. You can hit them on any online bookstore. Try to think the panelists. There are always people in the audience who know as much if not more than the panel. I just wanted to comment Zora Neale Hurston reader and every time i read her life story i get very said that she lived a hard life, suffered a lot, she had a breakdown with langston hughes, the white patron had on black literary heritage controlling the type of writing the redoing of that had to do with her going to florida. To write the kind of writing she wanted to do. She didnt want the white patrons to influence the writings other black writers were influenced by. My point is she suffered as a result of her resistance. I dont know if anyone mentioned she was accused of child abuse, child neglect. She was acquitted, suffered a lot as a result of the accusation. She was discovered ever made and on public assistance for a long time and she suffered. In my opinion she was one of the most important black writers of the 20th century. I want to talk about the sacrifice she made to be able to write the books or the writing i consider the most authentic in america. Just the poverty, the sacrifice she made because she didnt want to be a sellout. The one thing i would say about that which is true, she chose to do that, she chose not to go the commercial route. When she did earlier on as a way to survive, to serve as that kind of witness, to be that committed, to gather that narrative is triumphant, heroic. What i was saying before, not to gloss that over, but something instructive about how real that is for a lot of people in academia, it reminds you if you take that path it might be a little bumpy but look what she has given us. I want to be triumphant and witness her sacrifice at the same time. You did remind us of the price she paid. She was very ill, she was impoverished, she couldnt afford the kind of medical assistance she could have had. Virginia nolans book Zora Neale Hurstons last decade is an important book to read because what i would like to say is her mothers daughter, she is down on her luck, a mobile home, so sad in the sense that she has no security. She lost her home before she could buy it, she couldnt afford it. Personally, psychically, the vicious journalism that did write about the molestation charge and they didnt follow through by saying she had not only been exonerated but so falsely accused she wasnt even in the country when this molestation was supposed to happen. It is important that you remember as you look at the nolan book, she is so opinionated but she is insistent and not giving an inch. There are tragic dimensions in her life but i dont think her life is a tragic one. That is the important difference. That is how she would want to be remembered. One of the things i find, i cant write a sentence, she is writing to be very end, that since of self and the need to create and produce, whatever is taken away from her that is never taken away from her. Tragically colored. One more hand. You are asking a question to comment as an anthropologist. And how she was able to integrate her audience. Integrate her values. Coming from someone who trained as an anthropologist. I trained as an anthropologist, anthropology minor but anthropology as you were saying has history, people of color. Zora Neale Hurston stands out, because she comes to new york where she studies with us, father of american anthropology, at the same time as Margaret Mead. I dont know if anyone knows the name Margaret Mead anymore. Used to be a big name but margaret lead was in samoa. She wrote a very important influential book called coming of age in samoa. Ruth benedict studied the indians of the southwest. They suggest i dont want to say they but it is suggested she felt people to study and she says i am going home, to eatonville. That is a profound thing because Margaret Mead didnt go back where she was from. To go back to her community and take those people seriously, take the idea seriously, everyday practices seriously, expressions seriously and not to put them out there as optics of ridicule or pity is a very profound thing and that is where i would say Zora Neale Hurston of convention in of her policy that she does very quickly, she doesnt she produces detailed in context so we get the whole storytelling process which anthropologists came to appreciate decades after Zora Neale Hurston initiated that example because she makes a profound contribution to the study of anthropology. Important to remember Zora Neale Hurston did not turn people into ethnographic artifacts and she heard from them in a way they could also read. She did not alienate things from her own stories. You see some blind spots in the caribbean. For me, that flares and the moment intel my horse when im cringing, to have that witnessing and to come see this early, the limits of her imagination, what it means to collect where she is from reminds us we all have work to do. Zora Neale Hurston befalls and is always worth the time. Thinks for helping us celebrate Zora Neale Hurston. This is booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Beginning at 7 30, bring discussion on race in america featuring professor eddie go out