Primary Reading:
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Amistad, 2000).

Supplemental Readings:
N. K. Jemisin. Introduction to How Long ’til Black Future Month? (Orbit, 2018).

Zadie Smith. “What does soulful mean?,” from Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (Penguin Press, 2009).

Alice Walker. “Looking for Zora,” from In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).

Alice Walker. “Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief,” from the foreword to Barracoon (Amistad, 2018).

Interview with Deborah G. Plant, editor of Barracoon. “Zora Neale Hurston’s editor for ‘Barracoon’ explains why authentic black language matters.” https://medium.com/the-aambc-journal/zora-neale-hurstons-editor-for-barracoon-explains-why-authentic-black-language-matters-7ac44e44e700.

Participants:
Valerie, Sam, Thomas, Adam, Alexa, Carmen, Ginny, Mimi, Alex.

Soundtrack:
Podcast theme music is sampled from History by the samplers extraordinaire, Thievery Corporation, featuring Mr. Lif & Sitali

Colors – Acoustic, Black Pumas
This Joy, Resistance Revival Choir
Roberta, Leadbelly
It’s a Sin to be Rich, It’s a Low-Down Shame to be Poor, Lightnin’ Hopkins
Don’t Call Me Names, Rhiannon Giddens
I am not my Hair, India.Arie featuring Akon
What is Freedom for You, The Sey Sisters