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Immediately after deeming herself “colored,” Hurston explains that this identity did not, as most would assume, begin at birth. Instead, Hurston places her first day as a black woman years later, after she turns thirteen. As a child, her deeper understanding of race was postponed while she lived in an “exclusively...colored town.” The suggestion is that race emerges less from the basic fact of skin color than it does from differences enforced by a larger society. While in an exclusively black town, “blackness” is a less, or not at all, important quality. Hurston thus shows how slippery race is as…