The following transcription is based on a lecture delivered by Carla Kaplan at the October 2003 Virginia C. Gildersleeve Conference, “Jumpin’ at the Sun: Reassessing the Life and Works of Zora Neale Hurston.” Herein, quotations from the work of Zora Neale Hurston are taken directly from Professor Kaplan’s remarks and not from the writings of … Read more
Hurston-related Institutions Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (every January) Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library in Fort Pierce, FL presents the Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation General Hurston Information Zora Neale Hurston article at Barnard College Archives Popular Zora Neale Hurston “fan” site by Kip Hinton Hurston Work/Bibliography Zora … Read more
Editor’s Note: The explosion of interest in Hurston has resulted in a truly impressive body of scholarly work. As a result, this bibliography can only be incomplete. Included here are Hurston’s major works; books and articles related to Hurston by the contributors to this volume; monographs on Hurston; and, a small selection of articles on … Read more
Jumpin’ at the Sun: Reassessing the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston takes as its point of departure the October 2003 Virginia C. Gildersleeve Conference of the same name. Hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the conference gathered together the most exciting names in Hurston scholarship for a daylong examination of a … Read more
I. I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances. . . . But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who … Read more
Conference Program (PDF, 636 KB) This year, in honor of the 30th anniversary of The Scholar & the Feminist, we will revisit the themes of several landmark conferences-including The Future of Difference (1979), Class, Race, and Sex (1980), Women in Resistance (1984), and Women as Change Makers: Building and Using Political Power (1992). By returning to the fundamental debates of ten, twenty, thirty years … Read more
Conference Program (PDF, 720 KB) With another presidential election year upon us, we take advantage of an opportune time to consider the complex ways in which the public exchange of information delineates, if not defines, social power. As citizens of the Information Age, we live in a world that has been and will continue to be … Read more
Conference Program (PDF, 156 KB) Morning Session Why? Feminist Analyses of the State of the State of the WorldNeta Crawford, Watson Institute, Brown UniversityLisa Duggan, New York UniversityLois Ann Lorentzen, University of San FranciscoMeredeth Turshen, Rutgers University Social Action Workshops Expansive Vision/Effective Tools: Using Human Rights to Eliminate Gender and Race Discrimination in the United States … Read more
Conference Program (PDF, 140 KB) Public Sentiments: Memory, Trauma, History, Action will continue the Center’s ongoing discussion of social justice by considering how emotions, so vital to the formation of our communities, help define and determine the course of our struggles. In the aftermath of devastating September 11 attacks, American citizens have been called upon not … Read more
Conference Program (PDF, 412 KB) Morning Plenary Multiple Movements: Changing the Future Young leaders from disability rights, global justice, and antiracism and gender equality initiatives speak with activists who’ve most profoundly influenced their work, tracing the changes their respective movements have undergone, the challenges they continue to face, and strategies for meeting them. Jennifer Kern, BC … Read more
