and so she's very invested in the story of her independent, blacktown, eatonville. but first independent the first independent blacktown, yes, thank you, and she's not she is also kind of ornery and harassable and outspoken and a brilliant storyteller, but she's but part of what i find so important about her is for me. that's the thread like in some ways what we were talking about before. the reality of all of the multiculturalism of southern history that gets flattened into you know, many ways a black white binary. she's she's tracking that in the 1920s and 30s amazing journalist amazing journalist and telling stories about race both in terms of the violence and in terms of the intimacy. yeah, she reaches the true contemporary way. she does. yeah, it's pretty incredible and in fact there was a new book. unearthed right and just came out recently. but yeah, you don't know us --. yeah, which was edited by my advisor from graduate school. yeah. yeah. and skip gates were at the fort that's good. yeah. yeah. um you write in the book that a nation an imagined community.

. >> right, so that is very important and she claimed eatonville, florida. she was born in alabama like me. but -- i just have to, she denied alabama. what was so interesting is that she was interested, this is a woman who is a native of eatonville, she goes to high school at florida baptist academy in jacksonville. and, eventually to howard university, morgan state, columbia. a strained as an anthropologist and spends much of her life writing fiction but also doing anthropological discovery of the history of african culture. across the americas and the caribbean, she traced their african retention's. folk tale, she is a folklorist, but she is also a keeper of culture, as it were. she is a participant observer. she is very invested in the story of her independent black town. >> the first independent black town. >> yes, thank you. she is also honorary and outspoken back and a brilliant storyteller. but, part of what i find so important about her is, for me that is the thread. what we were talking about before, in some ways, the reality of all of the multicult

. >> right, so that is very important and she claimed eatonville, florida. she was born in alabama like me. but -- i just have to, she denied alabama. what was so interesting is that she was interested, this is a woman who is a native of eatonville, she goes to high school at florida baptist academy in jacksonville. and, eventually to howard university, morgan state, columbia. a strained as an anthropologist and spends much of her life writing fiction but also doing anthropological discovery of the history of african culture. across the americas and the caribbean, she traced their african retention's. folk tale, she is a folklorist, but she is also a keeper of culture, as it were. she is a participant observer. she is very invested in the story of her independent black town. >> the first independent black town. >> yes, thank you. she is also honorary and outspoken back and a brilliant storyteller. but, part of what i find so important about her is, for me that is the thread. what we were talking about before, in some ways, the reality of all of the multicult

. >> right, so that is very important and she claimed eatonville, florida. she was born in alabama like me. but -- i just have to, she denied alabama. what was so interesting is that she was interested, this is a woman who is a native of eatonville, she goes to high school at florida baptist academy in jacksonville. and, eventually to howard university, morgan state, columbia. a strained as an anthropologist and spends much of her life writing fiction but also doing anthropological discovery of the history of african culture. across the americas and the caribbean, she traced their african retention's. folk tale, she is a folklorist, but she is also a keeper of culture, as it were. she is a participant observer. she is very invested in the story of her independent black town. >> the first independent black town. >> yes, thank you. she is also honorary and outspoken back and a brilliant storyteller. but, part of what i find so important about her is, for me that is the thread. what we were talking about before, in some ways, the reality of all of the multicult

but what's interesting is that, she won, was interested in -- this is a woman who is a native of eatonville. she goes to high school at florida baptist academy in jacksonville, and eventually at howard university, morgan state university, and. colombians trained as an anthropologist and spends much of his life was writing fiction but also doing anthropological discovery of the history of african culture, sort of across the americas and in the caribbean. and she teaches there african retention's, folk tales. she's a folklorist, but she really is also you know, it keeper of culture, as it were. and she's a participant observer so she's a very invested in the story of her independent like town, even fell. >> the first independent like them. >> the first independent black tone, yes, thank you. and she's not, she's also kind of ordinary and irascible, and outspoken and a brilliant storyteller but she's. part of what i find so important about her is for me that's the threat. looks some ways, what we were talking about before, the reality of all the multiculturalism of southern history that gets f