Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937, tells the story of Janie Crawford, a light-skinned African American woman who struggles and triumphs as she grows and eventually learns to live for herself instead of others. The book, which takes place in Florida in the early 20th century, starts with.
A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing exploitation, injury, and death.