Title: What is the purpose of Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"? - eNotes.com
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What is the purpose of Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"?
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Hurston's purpose in writing "How it Feels to be Colored like Me" is to assert her pride in being black. She pushes back against the idea, articulated by many of her black friends during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, that segregation and racial discrimination harmed the black soul and needed to be addressed. She dismisses race, saying she is just a part of the greater jumble of American diversity. She doesn't feel alienated or left out of the American experience because of being black, writing: