A review by hikio123
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I found the book interesting. It is a product of its time, and thought I can understand why some of the content was not released, I find that I could not find myself to agree with a lot of it. It does give a picture of times before ours, and the very big contrast between ideology and how race is perceived, but it was very hard to read anything about gender in that book. Some of the ideas felt like she spoke directly into the ears of incels and aged very poorly, but again, doesn't take away that the majority of the content was from the 1930s to 1950s.

An interesting read about social ideologies of the past, but I wouldn't hold it as timeless.