Dust tracks on a road

Autobiographical book

Dust Tracks on a Road is the 1942 autobiography of Black American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.

Contents

It begins with Hurston's childhood in the Black community of Eatonville, Florida, then covers her education at Howard University where she began as a fiction writer, having two stories published under the guidance of Charles S.

Johnson. It also covers her anthropological work under Franz Boas that led to her study Mules and Men (1935).^[1]

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature says "its factual information is often unreliable, its politics are contradictory, and it barely discusses Hurston's literary career".^[2] As is the case of most of her writing, there is little discussion of issues of race and segregation.^[1][3]

Writing and publication

The publishers forced extensive changes on the book, making Hurston remove a lengthy attack on Ameri