Talk:Zora Neale Hurston

Clarification Needed on "Niggerati" term

This article states that Hurston and others called themselves the "niggerati" without giving further explanation. The Wikipedia page for Wallace Thurman (who coined the term, i.e. see Langston Hughes' The Big Sea p. 238, where Hughes writes, "With [Thurman's] bitter sense of humor, he called the Harlem literati, the 'niggerati'.") gives a better description:

"Thurman and others of the "Niggerati" (the deliberately ironic name he used for the young African American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance) wanted to show the real lives of African Americans, both the good and the bad."

Could we add this parenthetical description to Hurston's page as well? I'm not sure how to do it.

Thanks for your time.

I don't think this is necessary, it seems clear that the name is ironic.Prezbo (talk) 12:37, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

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main photo is not of Zora

according to Valerie Boyd's biography, this is an image (the one of the woman smiling in the straw hat) that has often been mistaken for Zora but is not actually her, it is an unknown woman she photographed while collecting folklore Lzoladz (talk) 19:42, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

@Lzoladz and Tesuji64: Please provide a page #. At collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2018787, Yale Library identifies it as Hurston. Peaceray (talk) 02:04, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Lzoladz is referring to this photo. Boyd: "The woman pictured at left has often been misidentified as Zora Neale Hurston. Her identity is unknown, according to Alan Lomax—who snapped the photo during the summer of 1935" Gamaliel (talk) 15:35, 7 April 2026 (UTC)