Historicizing the space of ‘home’ in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, this paper joins the recent critical efforts to challenge a major strand in Hurston scholarship that reads Their Eyes as “ahistorical” and “mythical.” Rather than seeing Hurston’s South as depicted in Their Eyes as isolated from the modernity of the times, this paper argues that the various spaces of ‘home’ that Janie occupies in the novel-Nanny’s house, Logan’s “stump in the middle of the woods,” Joe’s “big house,” and Tea Cake and Janie’s “shack” in the Everglades, and “mah[Janie’s] house” in Eatonvill -reveal how racial segregation impinges upon the lives of Southerners during the period of urban migration. The text, by embracing the “Bahman workers” and the “Saws” as part of a larger geographical South, expands the boundaries of racial segregation and the migratory movements of this period as part of a larger US colonial enterprise. I argue that the dissolution of Janie’s various homes” and the difficulty of sustaining a ‘home’ show a subtle and yet powerful critique of the US racial order from the post-Reconstruction period to the 1930’s.