So...who wants to tell Nikole Hannah Jones about Hurston's economic philosophy?
Hint: it was, in fact, in direct opposition to what NHJ embraces.
Hint: it was, in fact, in direct opposition to what NHJ embraces.
In particular, see Hurston's assessment of W.E.B. Du Bois, who she basically called him a Kremlin stooge. The distance between her and NHJ on economic matters could not be further apart.
Another telling passage from Hurston's autobiography, 'Dust Tracks on a Road,' which is the direct antithesis of Hannah-Jones' backward-looking arguments about slavery in the 1619 Project:
These are not obscure facets of Hurston's life btw. Her libertarian-leaning 'Old Right' outlook is a long-acknowledged aspect of her biography that several generations of mainly left-leaning Hurston scholars have considered an enigma about her.
And finally for the chaser, here is Hurston directly repudiating the very premise of Nikole Hannah Jones's argument in the 1619 Project:
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