American Literature / Unit 13 AML 1221 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
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The idea
Hurston's essay says she became coloured at thirteen when she left Eatonville, that she is not tragically coloured, and that she does not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood. It refuses the position of victim in a movement much of which was built on protest.
In practice
Not tragically coloured, she says.
Where people slip
The refusal was a position, and it cost her.
Your place on the trail
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