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Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels To Be Colored Me Summary

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Zora Neale Hurston shares her experience from moving from an all-black community into a mixed racial community, in her essay entitle, How It Feels to Be Colored Me. Within Hurston’s essay, she exclaims that she was aware of her racial identity, however, no behavior or outcomes came into her view whilst she was exposed to the same race, only until she realized when she was exposed to other races and saw how she was treated and viewed differently. To put it another way, she grew up familiarized by her neighbors, and when she came into contact with outsiders, she realized how they displayed different behavior towards her, from this, she realized there is a boundary made from color. Supporting this claim, Hurston asserts that “they liked to hear

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