Florida's Migrant Farm Labor

Hurston, Zora Neale

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“…Zora Neale Hurston organized her 1958 essay "Florida's migrant farm labor" around an aqueous image of mostly-Black laborers. For beneath the state's "greatest industry, " agriculture, she wrote, "flows the plankton-rich stream of migrant labor" (Hurston [1958(Hurston [ ] 1991. As one Latino worker told me of his work in oranges: "It would be good to emphasize in your book, that if these lands have flourished over time, it has been with the help of hard work by a humble people.…”

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The cultural politics of water in the Everglades and beyond

Cattelino

2015

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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The cultural politics of water in the Everglades and beyond

Cattelino

2015

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“…In her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, Hurston's mythic narration of Florida's history identifi ed the "conglomerate" maroon community of the Black Seminoles as typifying the "great struggle" of Florida's colonial history prior to American statehood (1991a: 2), who made of the swampy canopy of the Everglades a refuge for fugitive African slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas a defi ant position from which to resist the antiblack logic of plantation slavery (Kai 2015). Following political Emancipation across the Atlantic Basin, Florida became a meeting ground for multiple waves of economic migrants hailing from both the Deep South of the United States and the Caribbean (Hurston 1991b), creating a demographic kaleidoscope of the diaspora across the Sunshine State, where Hurston observed "Africa by way of Cuba; Africa by way of the British West Indies; Africa by way of Haiti and Martinique; Africa by way of Central and South America" (1939: 6). Th rough their everyday folk practices, these various Africana communities transformed Florida from a mere topographical sandbar into a rich "culture delta" that had "accumulated" a "great mass of material" (1991c: 183).…”

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A Flowering of Memory

Padilioni

2022

Environment and Society

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In June 1945, Zora Neale Hurston wrote to W. E. B. Du Bois to propose a plan to create a Black cemetery to house the remains of famous Black Americans in Florida. Hurston suggested Florida because the state’s climate guaranteed the cemetery would be verdant year-round, and she included a landscaping plan of the flowers and trees she desired to furnish her memorial garden. As an initiate of New Orleans Hoodoo-Vodou, Hurston’s ontology of spirit allowed for the presence of the ancestors to indwell the living form of flowers, trees, and other topographical features of the land. I contextualize Hurston’s cemetery within an extended genealogy of Black necrogeography and the study of Black American deathscapes, examining the entangled relationship of Black gardening and Black burial practices as engendering a distinct ecology of root-working in which Black women gardeners propagate new forms of life in the very dust of our decomposition.

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A History of the Literature of the U.S. South

2021

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A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume's contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.

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Florida's Migrant Farm Labor

Cited by 49 publications

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The cultural politics of water in the Everglades and beyond

The cultural politics of water in the Everglades and beyond

A Flowering of Memory

A History of the Literature of the U.S. South

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