Title: How it Feels to be Colored Me Themes | LitCharts
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How it Feels to be Colored Me Themes
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Race and Difference
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How it Feels to be Colored Me Themes

Themes and Colors
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in How it Feels to be Colored Me, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Race and Difference
In her 1928 essay “How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston argues that race isn’t an essential feature that a person is born with, but instead emerges in specific social contexts. Hurston introduces this theme by describing her childhood in the majority black town of Eatonville, Florida, where, until the age of thirteen, she was not yet “colored.” It was only when she moved to the more diverse Jacksonville and…
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Performance
From the beginning of her essay, Zora Neale Hurston ’s ideas about race are bound up in creative performance. Her earliest experiences with white people are of singing and dancing for a white audience.