TY - JOUR AU - Hendershot, Heather AB - 598 The Journal of American History December 2023 university. By the 1940s, despite strong sales complishment given the twists and turns of for Dust Tracks on the Road, she could not get the investigation. funding for additional fieldwork; the trip to She Said was released in 2022, when Wein- Beaufort, which opens the film was her last stein was appealing his 2020 conviction for rape and sexual assault in New York City. (His funded fieldwork. The scholars remind the appeal failed, and he has since been found viewer of the tenuous health and circumstanc- guilty of rape and assault in Los Angeles, effec - es of an aging Black woman, with “no children tively guaranteeing he will spend the rest of his and no husband” when “the Negro is no lon- life behind bars.) New York jurors were specifi - ger in vogue.” cally told not to watch the trailer for Schrader’s Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space pow- film. That instruction was appropriate, as She erfully illuminates Hurston’s dogged tenacity Said leaves no doubt about Weinstein’s guilt. in holding on to her cultural insights, despite But the point of the film is not to take the pro - TI - She Said JO - The Journal of American History DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaad344 DA - 2023-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/she-said-kC0IfdMpzv SP - 598 EP - 600 VL - 110 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -