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COMMON TEXT:
How it Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston http://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf
FOR DISCUSSION:
Zora Neale Hurston https://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/hurstonarchive/pdf/Lesson-Plan-Day-1.pdf
The Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washingon https://www.bartleby.com/1004/14.html
Of Mr. Booker T. Washington by W.E.B. Du Bois http://www.stjoe.k12.in.us/ourpages/auto/2013/1/22/60124169/W_E_B.pdf
Zora Neale Hurston’s Biography
Eatonville, Florida
A. Individual Empowerment
B. Erasure of Racial Lines
EXTRA READING:
This reading was most likely my favorite reading to date. I absolutely loved the way Zora Neale Hurston describes her blackness, and even goes as far to include the extremely unique sentence in her writing: "I remember the very day that I became colored," as if being black was something you were not born with, but instead evolved to be. Hurston details how although she has been black all her life, she never distinctly felt colored, because she'd been surrounded by a very loving community of people who appreciated her for her individuality. It also helped that this community looked like Zora. Hurston discusses her moving to a small, predominantly white town, and how only in this environment had she…
What is means to be colored me by Zora Neale Hurston is written from the perspective of a young girl growing up in Eatonville, Florida. More specifically, a southern, small, exclusively black town. She details how she was a spectacle as Eatonville was her stage as while tourists in automobiles drove by. She also talks about when her perspective of the world changed as she moved from Eatonville to Jacksonville at the age of thirteen. Now, Hurston found herself becoming a stereotype instead of an individual. One of many instead of and intricate individual. SHe even alludes to the fact that she does not feel as oppressed as she is made out to be, and that the recognition of the…
Zora Neale Hurston was a civil rights activist and author who was born in 1891 and died in 1960. She is mostly known for being the author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” which I am not really familiar with. She was born in Alabama and lived generally in poverty and at the time of her death. It wasn’t really till after her death was there a revival in interest and resulted in recognition of her accomplishments. Most of her work has to do with the life she lives, such as growing up in a black community and the struggles that come with that. She was a n activist that was concerned with how African Americans are treated and how…
My first impression of “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” is that I would’ve loved to meet and befriend Zora Neale Hurston. Through her writing I can feel her confidence and her self-love, which I very much admire in anyone, let alone a woman in the 1920s. I especially like the line, “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.” The fact that she can so naturally be so unconcerned about the past of her ancestors; that she can move past that pain and live a proud life as who she is, shows complete autonomy and strength of…
"W.E.B. Du Bois: “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington”
This article consists of two excerpts from W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois. The first excerpt expressed Mr. Washington’s view of black empowerment through political, educational, and wealth. He believes that for Black people to survive is to be submissive. He wants black people to give up three important things that contribute to the future generations of black people: their political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher education of youth. At the time, Mr. Washington wanted the youth to focus on industrial education, the accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South. As the article progress, Du Bois shares his…