Zora Neale Hurston

Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier is a tenured researcher at Fiocruz Brasília and an active member of the IUAES Commission on Human Rights, as well as a part of the leadership board of the ITD Alliance. She is a former tenured professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and a former scientific assistant at the Brazilian Ministry of Racial Equality (MIR). She was awarded the TWAS-UNESCO Fellowship (2022–2025) and was a visiting professor at the Gender and Development Department at the Asian Institute of Technology and Thammasat University (both in Thailand). She is the leader of the “Best Practices for Epistemic Justice” of the Brazilian National Council (CNPq) and serves as a Global Youth for Peace Fellow (2025–present), working with youth displaced by the climate crisis. Her work bridges anthropology, decoloniality, human rights, and intercultural knowledge production. She has written, translated, and published numerous essays, scientific articles, book chapters and books in English, Spanish, Tupi Nheengatu, Finnish, and Portuguese.

• List of FiguresForewordKimberley D. McKinsonAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Tracing Diasporas in a Colonised WorldChapter 1. Steps of a ChronologyChapter 2. Early Life (1891–1919)Chapter 3. At the Margins (1920–1930)Chapter 4. A Glass Ceiling (1931–1956)Chapter 5. Barracoon, a Case StudyChapter 6. Her Last Days (1957–1960)ConclusionReferencesIndex

“This book offers an insightful and innovative approach to Hurston’s oeuvre. By applying a transatlantic and decolonial reflexivity, it sheds new light on Hurston’s work through a Black feminist lens from the Global South.” • Gabriel Chagas, University of Miami