I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive: a Zora Neale Hurston reader

On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design: a tradition by now / Alice Walker --

Zora Neale Hurston: a woman half in shadow / Mary Helen Washington --

Autobiography, Folklore and Reportage --

from Dust Tracks on a Road --

from Mules and Men --

from Tell my Horse --

Essays and Articles --

How it feels to be colored me --

The "pet" Negro system --

My most humiliating Jim Crow experience --

Crazy for this democracy --

What white publishers won't print --

Fiction --

The Eatonville Anthology --

from Jonah's Gourd Vine --

Sweat --

The Gilded Six-Bits --

from Moses, Man of the Mountain --

from Their Eyes Were Watching God --

Looking for Zora / Alice Walker.

Note on the fortieth anniversary edition: Zora Neale Hurston : more than we knew / Alice Walker --

Dedication: On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design : a tradition by now / Alice Walker --

Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston : a woman half in shadow / Mary Helen Washington --

1. Autobiography, folklore and reportage. from Dust tracks on a road ; from Mules and men ; from Tell my horse --

2. Essays and articles. How it feels to be colored me ; The "pet" Negro system ; My most humiliating Jim Crow experience ; Crazy for this democracy ; What white publishers won't print --

3. Fiction. The Eatonville anthology ; from Jonah's gourd vine ; Sweat ; The gilded six-bits ; from Moses, man of the mountain ; from Their eyes were watching God --

Afterword: Looking for Zora / Alice Walker.