This expansive volume, in five parts, revises existing perceptions of Hurston, like her well-known opposition to school integration and Richard Wright’s objection to her use of African American vernacular.
In just over 400 pages of essays - some previously published, others appearing here for the first time - readers get to peruse Hurston’s evaluations of just about everything imaginable: jazz, vote peddling, religious conversion, romantic relationships, international travel, the slave trade, Black vernacular, fake leaders, H.B.C.U.s, visual art, noses, other authors like Fannie Hurst and Robert Tallant, folklore, hoodoo and race relations in the South during and after Jim Crow.
“You Don’t Know Us Negroes” is the latest work by the Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston to be reissued by Henry Louis Gates Jr., here in collaboration with the scholar Genevieve West. YOU DON’T KNOW US NEGROES And Other Essays By Zora Neale Hurston Edited by Genevieve West and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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