Zora Neale Hurston: Crash Course Black American History #30
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- The Harlem Renaissance produced many remarkable artists, writers, and thinkers. Today we'll talk about one of the most interesting minds of the time, Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston was an anthropologist by training and spent much of her career studying and documenting the lives of Black people in the southern US. She later went on to write several remarkable novels, including Their Eyes Were Watching God, which we discussed in Crash Course Literature. • Their Eyes Were Watchi...
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I read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in 1993 while in college. It was the first time I read a full novel written by an African American author. As a French-Canadian student who hadn't read many non-québécois authors, it was revealing and mind-blowing. Thank you for this episode!
Zora Neale Hurston is my FAVORITE author of all time. She is unapologetically herself, and is full of light and life. I can never speak to the Black experience and those struggles, but I admire her for so much for her strength and determination to be both Black and a Woman during a time where so many wanted her to just be one or the other.
She is my favorite part of the Harlem Renaissance and I will continue to try to teach her in every English class I possibly can because she is the embodiment of what it means to be an author in the United States.
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." This speaks to me, however 'man' centric. Thank you Zora. Your words will live forever.
“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
This series continues to get better and better by the episode. Thank you for shedding a light on those who sometimes never get the shine they deserve. 😌
zora neale hurston's contributions to anthropology are vastly underappreciated.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of my absolute favorite American novels. So happy to have this video to point to for info on this amazing woman.
I was introduced to Hurston in American Women's Fiction in college. We study her work along side Ann Petry and Nella Larsen, all of which were amazing but still died in obscurity. It is a shame they never knew influences of their works.
Thank you Crash Course. ZORA is one of my favorites, thanks to Alice Walker who is also one of my favorite writers. Thank you and please do more of what you do for us. We need it.
we read zora neale hurston in one of my first american lit lectures ( i study in germany), and it was mindblowing to me. This series is such a gift and so important!
I like how Hurston has this uniquely creative spirit and mindset to go beyond the common things that a black person was during her time. I like that. Someone who is able to create a story and break stereotypes of a certain ethnic group rather than adding any type of social issue or stereotype into their stories.
I read TEWWG with my AP Lang & Comp class last year and I will never forget how my teacher said, tiredly, that basically all we read is "dead old white men" (it became an inside joke for all of us) for literary merit books deemed AP Level, but she wanted to include some books that had authors who were more diverse and a little more modern and I absolutely loved reading the book and getting the perspective on independence and the liberation of Janie and Zora using her character as a kind of self insert with the many experiences shared between them. I sent this to my teacher from last year, I hope she can share this video and many others can spread her legacy.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of those books I read every so often and it’s that time again ❤️ thank you for this video.
So grateful to see the intricate simplicity of Crash Course History applied specifically to Black History. The Chanel has the capacity of taking diverse and complex topics and present them in a way that hits the integral points and leaves the viewer wanting more.
My oldest daughter got a "ABCs of HBCUs" and Zora Neale Hurston was letter Z. Thanks for sharing her story.
I just finished reading this beautiful novel and came to watch the crash course videos on it! Thank you for this wonderful insight into Zora Neale Hurston and thank you for continuing to educate all on her legacy !
I always enjoy listening to episodes on the Harlem Renaissance and people from the Harlem Renaissance. thank you
Thank you, Alice Walker
One of my all-time favorite authors in America
Fantastic and lovely presentation Friend obrigado friend
i just read a book about the history of anthropology centred on Franz Boas and his students, and Zora Neale Hurston featured prominently in it! It’s fascinating to get this more literary perspective right after. Now I’m definitely putting her on my reading list!
This whole story gives me chills, to say the least.
this is one of the best crash courses ever..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just read Their Eyes Were Watching God a week ago and have eagerly awaited this episode❤️
I love her writing so much!
My favorite book! Thank you crash course!
What an amazing video Thank you so much! Hurston is such a treasure!
Thank you so much for this information! Your hard work is appreciated.
Thank you for this very informative video.
I've been trying to find and read more classic or influential books by black authors and woman authors, as a white male who loves classic and important literature and desires to read all sorts of authors, not just other white males, and in classic literature it is nearly all white dudes without few exceptions. I saw their eyes were watching god in a used bookstore. being familiar with the author's name, but not exactly sure why, I took a chance on it. i had no idea that it was her most important work, and a very important work in general, which I am learning now, I am very much looking forward to reading it.
God bless her. May she sleep in peace amongst the ancestors
Another great video. Thanks!
Thank you for this video.
This was really good, worthy of the content it discussed and good to follow (not so fast as usual.) Thanks
Thank you!!! Amazing content
Thank you and thanks to Alice Walker
Well done, as always.
I had not heard of this author even though I took an African American Literature class in college that covered a lot of content!
Great episode ❗💯🔥👍
What an incredible woman!
Thank you!!!
Thank you for this! I will certainly read a ZN Hurston novel asap!
Thank you for another rich video. Happy new year to you and the team.
Right on.
Recent upload in the main page. That's unusual thing of TH-cam to do.
glad to see Barracoon mentioned. its depiction of how female Dahomey warriors were deployed in the slaughter & enslavement of Cudjo's village is at first shocking & then logical when you consider their intent.
I'm going to look her up. Thanks.
Watch the PBS documentary on her
Never realized the Green Brothers were behind this channel.
Can you help me write my book?
Dope
my sister is named after her
Another great Video!
I love that you don't present a one-sided story but talk both about the horrible struggles and the fantastic beauty of the Black experience. It shows that this history is not only about historical and political trends but about humanity and the lives of everyday people.
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Celebrating Black excellence>>>>>>>>