Category: How It Feels to Be Colored Me

In Zora Neale Hurston’s short story How it Feels to Be Colored Me and Sweat there are many different elements of modernity in play. Hurston is able to expertly comment on the lives, being and welfare of African Americans at the time of her story in the United States. Illuminating the identity of African American…

In the novel Their Eyes were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston, feminine voice is spread throughout the novel with Janie, the protagonist, seeking natural and mutual love in a communal town. Janie lives in a small town with her grandmother, and she had three marriages with three different men. Hurston suggests that feminine…

In the play A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hanbserry brings forth many issues that African Americans face in the real world to the audience attention. In the book it is mainly about dreams that the main characters struggle to achieve because of the circumstances that rule their daily lives. This book is not only…

Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Hurston, is a book about empowerment because Janie is constantly fighting for her beliefs/rights. For instance, as the book begins Janie meets her wed, Logan Killocks, she is put right to work by him. When she is put to work she starts to dislike him because he…

Many authors explain being black and the issues of race in America differently. Authors like W.E.B Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison all use different types of narration, point-of view, and engagement with historical context to touch base with the issues of race in America. W.E.B Du Bois was a scholar and activist…