1. A NEW NOTE BY ALICE WALKER
2. DEDICATION BY ALICE WALKER
3. On Refusing to Be Humbled by Second Place in a Contest
4. You Did Not Design: A Tradition by Now
5. INTRODUCTION BY MARY HELEN WASHINGTON
6. Zora Neale Hurston: A Woman Half in Shadow
PART ONE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FOLKLORE, AND REPORTAGE
7. Introduction
8. From Dust Tracks on a Road
9. From Mules and Men
10. From Tell My Horse
PART TWO: ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
11. Introduction
12. How It Feels to Be Colored Me
13. The "Pet" Negro System
14. My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience
15. Crazy for this Democracy
16. What White Publishers Won't Print
PART THREE: FICTION
17. Introduction
18. The Eatonville Anthology
19. From Jonah's Gourd Vine
20. Sweat
21. The Gilded Six-Bits
22. From Moses, Man of the Mountain
23. From Their Eyes Were Watching God
24. AFTERWARD BY ALICE WALKER
25. Looking for Zora
26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS