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Zora Neale Hurston

How It Feels To Be Colored Me

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1928

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Essay Topics

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Hurston offers multiple definitions of her sense of what it means to be African-American or “colored’ (the commonly used term of the day). Identify the different ways she experiences racial identity and contrast the major ones.

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For Hurston, what is the relationship between place and identity? Use examples from the essay to support your discussion.

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Discuss Hurston’s perspective on whites. How is her perspective different from the usual perspectives of whites as dominant?

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