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"Different by Degree": Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, and Franz Boas Contend with Race and Ethnicity

"Different by Degree": Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, and Franz Boas Contend with Race... "Different by Degree" Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, and Franz Boas Contend with Race and Ethnicity roseanne hoefel What did or could African American folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891­1960) and American Indian ethnographer and linguist Ella Cara Deloria (1888 ­1971) have in common? According to their correspondences housed at the American Philosophical Society (aps) in Philadelphia, they have more in common than those who have been conditioned to think of race in dualistic terms and apart from class might assume. Both Hurston and Deloria spent a good part of the 1920s and 1930s marshalling their expertise for the father of modern anthropology, Franz Boas. Both women were stunned by what had passed for "folklore" about their respective communities and could hardly bear it. In a 24 May 1938 correspondence with Boas, Deloria explained that she had been reading a couple of manuscripts for a publishing house: "It is amazing what people write about Indians. I have criticized both [manuscripts] quite unfavorably; but I had to, they were so trashy; I should not like to be thought to pass on them." It became their mission, thus, to offer antidotal efforts through extensive, rigorous fieldwork. Both Hurston http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

"Different by Degree": Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, and Franz Boas Contend with Race and Ethnicity

Hoefel, Roseanne
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 25 (2) – Jun 1, 2001
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"Different by Degree" Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, and Franz Boas Contend with Race and Ethnicity roseanne hoefel What did or could African American folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891­1960) and American Indian ethnographer and linguist Ella Cara Deloria (1888 ­1971) have in common? According to their correspondences housed at the American Philosophical Society (aps) in Philadelphia, they have more in common than those who have been conditioned to think of race in dualistic terms and apart from class might assume. Both Hurston and Deloria spent a good part of the 1920s and 1930s marshalling their expertise for the father of modern anthropology, Franz Boas. Both women were stunned by what had passed for "folklore" about their respective communities and could hardly bear it. In a 24 May 1938 correspondence with Boas, Deloria explained that she had been reading a couple of manuscripts for a publishing house: "It is amazing what people write about Indians. I have criticized both [manuscripts] quite unfavorably; but I had to, they were so trashy; I should not like to be thought to pass on them." It became their mission, thus, to offer antidotal efforts through extensive, rigorous fieldwork. Both Hurston

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