![]() ![]() In her writings, instead of bemoaning the frustrations of the Black experience, Hurston chose to celebrate the many cultures of her people as well as the richness of their verbal expressions. ![]() She conducted significant research, interviews, and fieldwork relating to Black cultures of the United States and the Caribbean. She became the first Black student at Barnard College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology. Born in the all-Black town of Eatonville, Florida, of which her father was mayor, Hurston was intensely proud. Today she is the most widely taught Black woman writer in the canon of American literature. ![]() She faded into obscurity in the subsequent decades, but literary figures and scholars in the 1970s revived her work and introduced a whole generation to her brilliance. One of the leading forces of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston was also one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors in America from the mid twenties to the mid forties. ![]()
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