18 Citations
A Case Study from “Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo'” with Practice of Race Theory
- Art
- 2022
Abstract:Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” a nonfiction book by Zora Neale Hurston, was completed in 1931 but only published in 2018. Hurston’s data were analyzed with race critical…
Borders, Media Crossing and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa
- Art
- 2021
This book is a continuous migration between a theoretical exercise, constant citations and social critic. It consists of six chapters, a total of 142 pages, with 20 pages of notes, references and a...
Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance, and Paradox
- SociologyCritical Arts
- 2021
class, ethnos, minority, and politics of xenos, survival of apartheid in form of the urban wealthy/ poor segregation, and the 1995 Citizenship Act that insist on “desirable im/migration.” All of…
“In de Affica Soil”: Slavery, Ethnography, and Recovery in Zora Neale Hurston’sBarracoon: The Story of the “Last Black Cargo”
- Art, History
- 2021
I explore the relationship between Hurston as ethnographer and Kossola as subject in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” posthumously published in 2018 but extant…
Racial burdens, translations, and chance
- Political ScienceHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- 2020
Two signal events have had a global impact during the time it has taken to produce this issue: the global COVID-19 pandemic that began spiking between late 2019 in China and early 2020 in Italy, and…
Finding last middle passage survivor Sally ‘Redoshi’ Smith on the page and screen
- History, SociologySlavery & Abolition
- 2019
ABSTRACT This article identifies for the first time the last living Middle Passage survivor, Sally ‘Redoshi’ Smith (ca. 1848–1937), and traces her life story across a range of archival sources,…
In His Own Words: Zora Neale Hurston's Oral History of the Last Survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- HistoryDepartures in Critical Qualitative Research
- 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” , by Zora Neale Hurston. Edited by Deborah G. Plant. New York: Amistad Press, 2018. 208 pages. $24.99 cloth. $16.99 paperback. $12.99 ebook.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s visual and textual portrait of middle passage survivor Oluale Kossola/Cudjo Lewis
- Art, History
- 2017
ABSTRACT This article examines African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s book-length biography and film of the last known Middle Passage survivor, Oluale Kossola/Cudjo Lewis, to explore her…
“Hard Skies” and Bottomless Questions: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Epistemological “Opacity” in Black Religious Experience
- Philosophy
- 2016
Approaching Zora Neale Hurston as both a littérateur and cultural theorist who challenges conventional methodological and discursive boundaries, this article investigates her famous novel Their Eyes…