How it Feels to be Colored Me

by

Zora Neale Hurston

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Bags

Zora Neale Hurston introduces bags as a symbol of her own experience of and thinking about race. She refers to “brown” and “white, red and yellow” bags that represent skin color, but that’s the end…

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