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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s VultureIntroduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. 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.“One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni MorrisonYou Don’t Know Us Negroes 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.”White supremacy prevents the world from seeing or completely recognizing Black people in their full humanity and Hurston made it her job to lift the veil and reveal the heart and soul of the race. These pages reflect Hurston as the controversial figure she was—someone who stated that feminism is a mirage and that the integration of schools did not necessarily improve the education of Black students. Also covered is the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing her lover, a white doctor.Demonstrating the breadth of this revered and influential writer’s work, You ... Cover Title Page Contents Editors’ Note Introduction Part 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 Part 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 Part 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 Part 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? Part 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 Acknowledgments Chronological List of Essays Credits Notes Index About the Author Also by Zora Neale Hurston Copyright About the Publisher Copyright Title Page Dedication Contents Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you? Chapter 2: Renegade perception Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’ Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit Chapter 7: War on your mind Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it? Chapter 10: Human 2.0 Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult? Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko Postscript Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation Bibliography Index