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Problem: Mass Media & Society Yellow Journalism
Watch a Zora Neale video
A. What obstacles and opportunities to obtaining a higher education did Hurston face?
B. How did Hurston's non-conventional academic pathway present both challenges and opportunities in her work?
C. How did early anthropologists use their work to justify racism and inequality?
D. How did Franz Boas break with that tradition (as depicted in the film)?
E. What is the difference between armchair anthropology and participant observation as depicted in the documentary?
F. How did Hurston's education make fieldwork difficult? What strategies did she employ to make connections with the people whose lives interested her?
G. How does her passion and approach to life challenge the boundaries between science and art? How does it challenge the boundaries between work and life?
H. How does this documentary reveal the importance of having poor and minoritized people involved in academia in general and the social sciences in particular, including anthropology?
I. Share other comments about anything you found interesting about the documentary (this is not an optional question)!