THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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have no sense of imagination.
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don’t feel it inside themselves.
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worry too much about what others will think of them.
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look down on it because it is an African-American art form.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In her 1928 essay “How It Feels To Be Colored Me, ” African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston argues that race isn’t an essential feature that a person is born with, but instead emerges in specific social contexts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hurston describes a tendency for African-Americans to minimize or exoticize their racial identities to escape such discrimination or force others to treat them as individuals. The fact that claiming different ancestry is common and sometimes effective illustrates how vague and malleable racial identity can be.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hurston uses metaphors in “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” to communicate the reality of her sense of identity to readers. Hurston first uses metaphors to describe herself and her attitude towards the world outside of Eatonville, particularly whites.