Dust Tracks on a Road

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

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Zora Neale Hurston is an important figure who is associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Research sources to gain background on the movement and its aims. Discuss her contributions to the movement. Based on Dust Tracks on a Road, how did she view the aims of the movement?

Discuss Hurston's representation of the relationships between African Americans and whites in the memoir. What about this representation and the historical context of the 1940s might have made her work the subject of such positive attention?

Describe Hurston's perspective on what it means to be African American. Using research to provide context, explain what about her perspective contrasts with the prevailing racial wisdom of the day.