Discuss about the editors of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women describe Zora Neale Hurston as “an anthropologist and an African-American writer.” The editors of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women describe Zora Neale Hurston as “an anthropologist and an African-American writer.” Anthropology takes as its concern interactions between individual persons and whole cultures in human society. For this week, we’ll examine 2 of Hurston’s essays/non-fiction works: “How it Feels to be Colored Me” and “Characteristics of Negro Expression.”