American Experience Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (Season 35, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Experience

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (Season 35, Episode 2)

TV Episode | Documentary, Biography, History

An in-depth biography of the influential author whose ground-breaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.

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14 cast members

Name	Known for
Vanessa Williams Narrator Narrator See fewer	Ugly Betty (2006)
Bahni Turpin Zora Neale Hurston (voice) Zora Neale Hurston (voice) See fewer	Crossroads (I) (2002)
Lee D. Baker Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Franz Boas Self (archive footage) (as Franz Boaz) Self (archive footage) (as Franz Boaz) See fewer
Maria Eugenia Cotera Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Langston Hughes Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Way Down South (1939)
Zora Neale Hurston Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	American Playhouse (1980)
Carla Kaplan Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Charles King Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Daphne Lamothe Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Charlotte Osgood Mason Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Irma McLaurin Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Tiffany Ruby Patterson Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Richard Wright Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Native Son (1951)