Title: How It Feels To Be Colored Me Summary and Analysis | LitPriest
Headings: How It Feels To Be Colored Me
How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Background of the Essay
Contents
How It Feels To Be Colored Me Summary
How It Feels To Be Colored Me Characters Analysis
Zora Hurston
Enlightened Zora
Floridian white folks
Black people
Themes in How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Pride in African-American Heritage
Judgement and Prejudice
Identity and Race
Abandonment of Racism
Denial of Pain
Celebration of the (black) Self (Negritude)
History and Opportunity
Performance
How It Feels To Be Colored Me Literary Analysis
Interpretation of Title
Acceptance of Racial Identity
Biblical Allusion and Cultural & Historical Associations
Childhood as a True Color
Journey from Nora to a Colored Girl
Racial Bullying during Childhood
Vernacular Jazz Dance: A Key to Self Realization
Transformation from Zora to Cosmic Zora
Conclusion

Content: She usually used to say “Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin’?” If any of them stopped, she walked with him a bit farther in the street. Here Hurston writes, if any of her family members noticed what she was doing, she would surely be stopped from doing that. But she couldn’t stop greeting white tourists and being the first to welcome them. Hurston mentioned in the essay, at that time, she was aware of the only difference between white and black and that was white people do not live in their town and they paid her for singing, dancing and reciting. It was an amazing thing for her because she was not paid for these activities in her town. Only white people used to do it to her. Even her family disliked her performances yet they proclaimed her as “their Zora … everybody’s Zora.” Life was plain until she reached the age of 13. Due to family issues, she was sent to a boarding school in Jacksonville, Florida.