Zora Neale Hurston-The Greatest author of American Anthropologist Literature..
"....Their Eyes Were Watching God....
I am colored .. I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the
fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the
mother's side was not an Indian chief.
I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood..."
I am colored .. I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the
fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the
mother's side was not an Indian chief.
I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood..."
In 1927, Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis
.... the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade.
Hurston recorded the story of Lewis’s capture, the terror of the Middle Passage, his enslavement in
Alabama, and his life after Emancipation in Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,”
a novel she finished writing in 1931.
It found no takers at the time but was published for the first time in 2018.
...First problem with Critical Race Theory....?
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"...If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned
people among us has to mush prestige?..."
--Zora Neale Hurston