The racial prejudices of 1930s America were many, and included a common presumption that African American art was unoriginalmerely poorly copying white culture.
Where white European tradition views art as something fixed, Hurston saw African-American art works as a distinctive form of mimicry, reshaping and altering the original object until it became something new and novel.
In this way, she contended, African-American creative expression is a process that generates its own form of originalityturning borrowed material into something original and unique.
By carefully evaluating the relevance of previous arguments, Hurston showed African American artistic expression in an entirely new light.
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