![]() Doing field research in the segregated South was challenging for a single African-American woman, and Hurston, who was then in her mid-30s, occasionally slept in her car when she couldn’t find a hotel that would rent her a room, and traveled with a pistol for protection. Boas, an influential anthropologist, urged her to interview Lewis for The Journal of Negro History. ![]() Hurston was first dispatched to Plateau, Ala., in 1927, at the behest of Franz Boas, her mentor and professor at Barnard. Plant, who wrote an introduction to “Barracoon.” “There’s still a lingering notion of Hurston as not quite serious, maybe gifted and intuitive, but not a sound scholar, not a respectable social scientist. “This is going to make us look at her again as a social scientist,” said the scholar Deborah G. ![]()
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