Students, professors and community members will kick off Penn State Altoona’s 24th annual African American Read-In this weekend with the theme Black ecologies, which celebrates environmental writing by Black authors. Exploring topics ranging from urban nature to geography to environmental science, this multi-day event aims to engage attendees with both contemporary and historical works by […]
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Most of history is ugly, particularly American History, particularly for blacks. Zora Neale Hurston was unable to accept the idea that the culture of sl.
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In her 1942 autobiographical work, Dust Tracks on a Road, author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston openly declared her desire to expand the focus and direction of African-American literature, indicating not only that “I was and am thoroughly sick of the subject [of the race problem in the United States]” but that she was interested in exploring “what makes a man or a woman do such-and-so, regardless of his color” (713). And while discussions of race inherently pervade much of her work, this artistic and ideological perspective the need to “tell a story the way I wanted, or rather the way the story told itself to me” (713) played a significant role in shaping Hurston’s literary works throughout her storied career. Whether it was using dialect to construct the African-American voice in text, driving down the coast collecting stories from Black folk whose voices had long been ignored, or delving into the lives of a white married couple in