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

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

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

One: Autobiography, folklore and reportage : From Dust tracks on a road ; From Mules and men ; From Tell my horse --

Two: 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 --

Three: 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 / by Alice Walker.