Read Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”.
11. According to Hurston, when and why did she “become colored”?

12. Is Hurston more optimistic or more pessimistic about being a person of color? Provide examples.

13. When does Hurston “feel the most colored”?

14. How does jazz music make Hurston feel? Does she believe white people also feel this way when listening to it?

Why or why not?

15. Hurston states she is not bothered by discrimination. How does it make her feel instead? What is her reasoning?

16. Look closely at Hurston’s “bag metaphor” at the end of the essay—What does the color of the bag represent?

17. What do the contents of the bag represent?

18. What is the point of the “bag metaphor”? (Hint: What is she suggesting about race?)

19. Overall, do you think Hurston is proud to be African American? Why or why not?

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

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