PBS American Experience - Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023)

An in-depth biography of the influential author whose ground-breaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century. Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas.