The Void

In reading “What White Publishers Won’t Print,” not only was I captivated by the argument of the piece, something that I believe is true but have never noticed before, but I also couldn’t help but wonder: is it just that publishers won’t print the work in these “voids”? Or is it possible that the work of the voids is simply not there?
I don’t mean to imply that the work wasn’t being created or that it wasn’t good enough, because I think that we have read just a few of the multitudes of amazing and varied works created around and before this time. My point is more of a reference to the idea that literary works depicting “every day” upper to middle class black people might not have been as prolific among the African American communities themselves. We have seen some of the commentary and had class discussions about the view of these “free rich blacks” apparently abandoning their race by pretending to be white, which often created a hybrid racial barrier, if not, more literally, an economic barrier. This then could explain why maybe literary works that filled some of the void mentioned by Hurston went un-published, or even unwritten because this every-day successful group became another “other” as opposed to part of the same self.
Another thought that Hurston referenced was the idea that pieces that didn’t contain racial conflict or commentary were not entertaining enough to be published. The thing that struck me about this idea was its application to Countee Cullen’s bio in that it says he tried NOT to write about racial issues, and in so doing actually illustrated or manifested the racial conflict within himself. This idea is interesting as it begs the question about whether race can ever be forgotten or ignored, and also if there is such thing as an unbiased or un-colored (whether white, black or otherwise) piece of work? The same may go for religion, gender…etc.
I realize in re-reading this that both of my questions/comments are unclear and may imply questions/thoughts that I do not intend. But, I guess they are really trying to start the discussion about how this void came to exist in literary work and also to examine different assumptions at the root of the idea.