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

Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.

I don't want to discourage anyone from reading this because I see the value, but I wasn't getting out of it what I was expecting. The essays (obviously) were very grounded in their historical time, which I just don't have the background knowledge to appreciate. There was also occasional of-the-time rhetoric that would be interesting to explore historically, but again I'm not in a position to do so. I think I would enjoy exploring these works with modern commentary attached, but on their own were hard to work through.