In this first episode of our fall 2025 season on memory, we gathered to discuss Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", which was written almost 100 years ago but only published in 2018. We consider how its recent publication represents a form of scripturalizing alongside how Hurston's own work seeks to make a person into scripture.

In this first episode of our fall 2025 season on memory, we gathered to discuss Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", which was written almost 100 years ago but only published in 2018. We consider how its recent publication represents a form of scripturalizing alongside how Hurston's own work seeks to make a person into scripture.

In this first episode of our fall 2025 season on memory, we gathered to discuss Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", which was written almost 100 years ago but only published in 2018. We consider how its recent publication represents a form of scripturalizing alongside how Hurston's own work seeks to make a person into scripture.&nbsp;

Scripturalizing Kossola/Cudjo Lewis: Memory, Naming, and Making the Text of Barracoon

What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? In this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.

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Scripturalizing Kossola/Cudjo Lewis: Memory, Naming, and Making the Text of Barracoon

Scripturalizing Kossola/Cudjo Lewis: Memory, Naming, and Making the Text of Barracoon