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: When she moves to Jacksonville, she encounters the harsh truth. As they began to grow in Jacksonville, she was made to feel abashed for her culture, race and heritage. Through her essay, she attempts to overthrow the feelings of guilt and shame that emerge because of blackness. Judgement and Prejudice
Judgement and prejudice are one of the central thoughts in Hurston’s essay. The strange conflicting energy, present in the essay, defines it. She informs her readers that in her essay she is answering to the unuttered prejudice. She has not written this essay to express her feelings or what her life is like. Though she, more or less, gives her thoughts to these two subjects, what she actually does, in the essay, is to drag back her readers into the belief system. She made her readers witness that the prejudice against black people emerges from their belief system. She grieves over the fact that white people do not celebrate