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: The author calls herself unique among others and makes no excuse to hide her racial identity. She is determined not to exchange her black identity with Native American whiteness just like other people of her race. She reminds the day of her life when she is made to feel colored. Before then she grew within a black community in a village of Eatonville, Florida. Everyone around her was black like her and only white people she had encountered were those passersby to Orlando. Local townspeople usually rode horses and tourists from the Northern area used cars very often. And the residents of Eatonville did not bother white people who came from the Southern area and they kept on doing whatever they were i.e. chewing cane. But they were very much concerned with people coming from the North. They came out on the porch of their houses to watch them. It was Hurston who boldly went farther and sat outside the house near the gatepost to speak with passers-by.