HIST 460/560, Spring 2004, Week 3
Zora Neale Hurston: Outline and Key Terms
1. Hurston’s Historical Context
a. Jim Crow Era
b. Harlem Renaissance
2. Hurston’s Life and Work (1891? - 1960)
3. Anthropology and the Historical Career of the Culture Concept
13th, 14th, and15th Amendments (1865, 1868, 1870)
Plessy v. Ferguson: “separate but equal” (1896)
“New Negroes”
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturns Plessy and makes
school segregation unconstitutional
Franz Boas (1858-1942)
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