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Jan 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Happy Zora Neale Hurston Day! #Literature @PedagogyAmLitSt @BlkPerspectives

memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/january-nomi…
I love Their Eyes a lot (and it teaches really well), but it's far from the whole story of Hurston's multi-genre, interdisciplinary career. "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928) is one of the great American personal essay:

wheelersburg.net/Downloads/Hurs…
The posthumously published Barracoon is a really important historical novel:
smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/z…
For a lot more, the official Hurston website is a good place to start:
zoranealehurston.com

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Here it is, my 109th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes & conversations, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians
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When I've given my book talks for Of Thee I Sing, I start with a quote from @AndrewMcCormck's vital 1/7/21 @thenation article.+
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When the police begin firing tear gas at the insurrectionists, McCormick reports: “This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. She was crying, hysterical. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”
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Here it is, my 104th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & solidarity in the continued fight, all! #twitterstorians
Starting with a few favorite pieces from the week, including @brooklynrwhite’s obituary for the great Joyce Bryant for @Essence:
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Dec 1, 2022
Most everything about this week can take a long walk off a short pier, but I do get to finish my undergrad classes teaching one of the coolest readings of the semester: Pauline Hopkins' historical fiction-realistic race story-murder mystery "Talma Gordon"!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/engli…
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For more on all things Hopkins, I highly recommend checking out the work of the Pauline E. Hopkins Society (co-founded by my awesome grad school friend April Logan):
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It’s a little bit shorter of a thread due to the holiday, but y’all just produced too much public scholarly goodness this week for me to miss one of my #ScholarSunday threads entirely! So…
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