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

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.