Oct 14, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

ANT 301 - Critical Thinkers: Zora Neale Hurston


Instructor
Bowles

Through the lens of Zora Neale Hurston’s life and work as an anthropologist, this course examines the following:  the politics of language and inequality, the perils and sanctity of segregation and the value of imagination in ethnographic writing.  Works to be examined during the course are Hurston’s biography, excerpts from her autobiography, plays, short stories, critical essays and one of her many novels.

Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies (Geographical Region: North America).
Satisfies a major and minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement.