How It Feels To Be Colored Me

Hurston offers multiple definitions of her sense of what it means to be African-American or “colored’ (the commonly used term of the day). Identify the different ways she experiences racial identity and contrast the major ones.

For Hurston, what is the relationship between place and identity? Use examples from the essay to support your discussion.

Discuss Hurston’s perspective on whites. How is her perspective different from the usual perspectives of whites as dominant?