USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the author of “How it Feels to be Colored Me”?
A
Tupac
B
Langston Hughes
C
Countee Cullen
D
Zora Neale Hurston
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"How It Feels To Be Colored Me” (1928) is an essay by Zora Neale Hurston published in World Tomorrow as a “white journal sympathetic to Harlem Renaissance writers", illustrating her circumstance as an African-American woman in the early 20th century in America.

Detailed explanation-2: -"How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928.

Detailed explanation-3: -“How It Feels To Be Colored Me”, a piece by Zora Neale Hurston, was written to allow readers to look through the eyes of a colored woman. Specifically, a colored woman living in early segregated America. Hurston described her experiences through emotion, credibility, reasoning, and appropriate timing.

Detailed explanation-4: -"How It Feels To Be Colored Me” (1928) is an essay by Zora Neale Hurston published in World Tomorrow as a “white journal sympathetic to Harlem Renaissance writers", illustrating her circumstance as an African-American woman in the early 20th century in America.

Detailed explanation-5: -Zora Neale Hurston describes her sense of identity and experience being a black woman in this 1928 essay.

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