IN THIS ISSUE
Introduction
by Monica L. Miller
About this Issue
by Janet R. Jakobsen and David Hopson
PART 1
“Sharp Shadows, High Lights, and Smudgy In-Betweens”: Narrating the Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Editing an Icon
by Carla Kaplan
Enter the Negrotarians
by Valerie Boyd
PART 2
Everybody’s Zora: The Legacy of Hurston’s Work
The Mark of Zora: Reading between the Lines of Legend and Legacy
by Ann duCille
Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays: On Art and Such
by Cheryl A. Wall
Everybody’s Fire Dance: Zora Neale Hurston and American Dance History
by Anthea Kraut
Migration, Fragmentation, and Identity: Zora Neale Hurston’s Color Struck and the Geography of the Harlem Renaissance
by David Krasner
PART 3
My People, My People: Zora Neale Hurston in Performance
Video of student performances directed by Peter A. Campbell, with commentary
by David Krasner
PART 4
Finding a World that I Thought Was Lost: Zora Neale Hurston and the People She Looked at Very Hard and Loved Very Much
PART 5
How it Feels to Be Colored: Race, Gender, and Highter Education – Students Sound Off
Editor’s Note
by Monica L. Miller
Excerpt from “Negotiating Integration: Black Women at Barnard, 1968–1974”
by Elvita Dominique
Opinion Pieces from the Columbia Spectator
by Danielle Evans
Testimonials:
- “Manifesto”
by Esinam Bediako - No Place Like . . . : On Living in a Small Brown Place Self, Space, and Universe(city)
by Alexis Gumbs - White Girl Oh White Girl
by Leah King
PART 6
From the Archives
Documents on Zora Neale Hurston from the Barnard College Archives
