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: Each sack contains both marvelous and ordinary things from diamond to broken glass pieces. If someone dumps her out in a big pile, there would be many priceless bags. They can be exchanged but stuffing will remain similar. She muses rhetorically that the Great Stuffer (God) might have stuffed them at first place just like that. How It Feels To Be Colored Me Characters Analysis
Zora Hurston
The author paints herself in the essay as a character and gives an account of different shades of her life. Hurston is proud of her color and race. She feels free to acclaim her Negrotudness. She wears blackness as a badge and analyzes her views. She sets the tone for other Black people to feel proud of themselves. Enlightened Zora
Zora sprites in a new purified form when she realizes her identity is acceptable in her community and she is treated like a celebrity and worthy of praise.