Watch the opening scenes of the new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE biography ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE, premiering Tuesday, January 17 on PBS and the PBS Video app.
Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.