An emailer:

As someone who has read all of Hurston’s published works(6 Novels plus assorted works of non-fiction, anthropology, etc.) I heartily agree with your suggestion that the right claim Hurston much more aggressively.
She was a classic champion of the Old Right who has been shamefully seized by Afrocentrists and feminists (both of whom she would have despised)– largely because the right has abandoned the playing field in subjects like African-American studies and liteature.
One book that has not been done though, is her Collected Essays (may be some copyright restrictions on some). Someone at ISI or a similar press should jump all over this– Hurston is generally recognized as THE major African-American female writer of the first half of the twentieth century. And she is also considered one of the major figures of twentieth century American literature. (In fact a couple of her books modern editions have introductions by none other than Henry Louis Gates, who acknowledges Hurston’s conservatism).
Huston’s vision is an outstandingly clear-eyed one that any conservative should embrace. It is far past time we did so.