How It Feels to be Colored Me

Zora Neale Hurston‏

فروردین ۲۰۲۴ · Open Road Media

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The acclaimed author of Their Eyes Were Watching God relates her experiences as an African American woman in early-twentieth-century America.

In this autobiographical essay, author Zora Neale Hurston recounts episodes from her childhood in different communities in Florida: Eatonville and Jacksonville. She reflects on what those experiences showed her about race, identity, and feeling different.

“How It Feels to Be Colored Me” was originally published in 1928 in the magazine The World Tomorrow.

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than fifty short stories, plays, and essays.