Their Eyes Were Watching God reflects on the social, political and gender inequality between Black and white Americans. Hurston is said to have contributed to the social realism within literature at that time, which shed light on the injustice that was prevailing in American society. Many African Americans worked in the labor field due to their lack of education and America’s dire economic conditions during the great depression. The text is overall a realistic representation of the lives that black women experienced in the 1900’s and overcame serving as female pillars for the progress of African American women today.
