How it feels to be colored me

A detailed Summary of How it feels to be colored me

Zora Neale Hurston in "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" describes

how her image of herself changed as other people's perceptions of

color was imposed upon her throughout her life. She writes about how

she accepts who she is, not as a color, black, but all that she is made

up of. Black was how other people perceived her and was not as much

of a problem for her it as it was for others.

Up until the age of thirteen, Hurston lived in a town that was

"exclusively a colored town"(1766). She knew of little difference

between the skin color of whites and blacks, she wrote, "...white

people differed from colored to me in that they rode through town and

never lived there"(1767). At the age of thirteen she went to school in

Jacksonville, she then discovered how people outside her town

viewed her. She states, "I was not Zora of Orange County any more.

I was a little colored girl"(1767). She felt this change effected the way

she viewed her appearance, as well as inside her, she wrote " In my

heart as well as in the mirror. I

She also feels the sting of discrimination, but she does not let it

Approximate Word count = 1092
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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