You don't know us Negroes : and other essays / Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Genevieve West and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurston, Zora Neale, author.

Contributor:

West, Margaret Genevieve, editor, author of introduction.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor, author of introduction.

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American authors.

Artists.

Harlem Renaissance.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

x, 451 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

You do not know us Negroes

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Summary:

"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white doctor. Among the selections are Hurston's well-known works such as "How It Feels to be Colored Me" and "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience." The essays in this essential collection are grouped thematically and cover a panoply of topics, including politics, race and gender, and folkloric study from the height of the Harlem Renaissance to the early years of the Civil Rights movement. Demonstrating the breadth of this revered and influential writer's work, You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays is an invaluable chronicle of a writer's development and a window into her world and time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One On the Folk

Bits of Our Harlem

High John de Conquer

The Last Slave Ship

Characteristics of Negro Expression

Conversions and Visions

Shouting

Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals

Ritualistic Expression from the Lips of the Communicants of the Seventh Day Church of God

pt. Two On Art and Such

You Don't Know Us Negroes

Fannie Hurst

Art and Such

Stories of Conflict

The Chick with One Hen

Jazz Regarded as Social Achievement

Review of Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant

What White Publishers Won't Print

pt. Three On Race and Gender

The Hue and Cry About Howard University

The Emperor Effaces Himself

The Ten Commandments of Charm

Noses

How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Race Cannot Become Great Until It Recognizes Its Talent

Now Take Noses

Lawrence of the River

My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience

The Lost Keys of Glory

The South Was Had

Take for Instance Spessard Holland

pt. Four On Politics

The "Pet Negro" System

Negroes Without Self-Pity

The Rise of the Begging Joints

Crazy for This Democracy

I Saw Negro Votes Peddled

Mourner's Bench

A Negro Voter Sizes Up Taft

Court Order Can't Make Races Mix

Which Way the NAACP?

pt. Five On the Trial of Ruby McCollum

Zora's Revealing Story of Ruby's 1st Day in Court!

Victim of Fate!

Ruby Sane!

Ruby McCollum Fights for Life

Bare Plot Against Ruby

Trial Highlights

Justice and Fair Play Aim of Judge Adams as Ruby Goes on Trial

McCollum-Adams Trial Highlights

Ruby Bares Her Love Life

Ruby's Story: Doctor's Threats, Tussle over Gun Led to Slaying!

Ruby's Troubles Mount: Named in $100,000 Lawsuit!

The Life Story of Mrs. Ruby J. McCollum!

My Impressions of the Trial.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [412]-440) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Hurston, Zora Neale. You don't know us negroes and other essays.

ISBN:

9780063043855

0063043858

9780008522971

0008522979

9780008522964

0008522960

OCLC:

1260692004

Publisher Number:

99989443936