https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/cogn150s12/reading/Hurston-What-White-Publishers-Wont-Print.pdf

Though Hurston is mostly known for her fiction, her anthropological looks at herself and her culture are amazingly powerful in nonfiction form.

How does Hurston play with “then versus now” to show how things have not changed all that much from the time of slavery?
What satirical points does Hurston make about the use of prodigies specimens and extraordinary examples? How is this a trap for the African-American artist? (Remember our coverage of these issues with Phillis Wheatley.)