You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays -- Zora Neale Hurston

<p><strong>A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: <em>Oprah Daily</em>, <em>Business Insider</em>, <em>Marie Claire, The Seattle Times</em>, <em>Lit Hub</em>, <em>Bustle</em>, and <em>New York Magazine's Vulture</em> </strong></p><p><strong>Introduction by <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. </strong></p><p><strong>Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.</strong></p><p><strong>"One of the greatest writers of our time."--Toni Morrison</strong></p><p><em>You Don't Know Us Negroes </em>is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston's writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people's inner lives and culture rather than destroying it. She argues that in the process of surviving, Black people re-interpreted every aspect of American culture--"modif[ying] the language, mode of food preparation, practice of medicine, and most certainly religion."<e