glendareads39 's review for:

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

4.0

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You don't know us Negroes and other essays is a brilliant and informative essay collection on the Black experience (Culture, Black Church and Black Expression). Hurston’s frustration and anger at the racist and demeaning way America has treated Black culture. Hurston artfully expresses herself in each of these essays. One of the most insightful essays in the book was about the trial and conviction of Ruby McCollum who murdered a prominent white doctor in 1952. This extensive essay collection spans over 35 years.