Summary Of How It Feels To Be Colored Me

The inspiration for my source analysis paper lies in Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How it Feels to Be Colored Me,” an examination of her experience transitioning from an all-black community in Eatonville, Florida to a white community in Jacksonville and eventually to Barnard College in New York City. Hurston begins describing her childhood growing up in Eatonville, where the only white people she saw were those passing through her town. The whites and blacks did not have much interaction, but the town citizens watched the tourists as much as the tourists watched the town citizens. Though many of the citizens only looked through their windows and behind the safety of their curtains, Hurston loved to sit on her front porch, which served as a gallery seat for her. Occasionally she would even greet and speak to the travelers who she saw as actors with the world as their stage, but Hurston was ignorant of the fact that in turn the white people saw her as an exhibition.
When Hurston turned thirteen she started school in Jacksonville, a vastly different environment. She remembers “the very day that [she] became colored,” indicating that before she had not been “colored.” Prior to leaving Eatonville, Hurston did not have the concept that the color of her skin would be her identifying marker and set her apart from …show more content…
Applying this to the college process, equality would be looking at each application as it is and in direct comparison to every other application whereas equity would be looking at applications from minorities and low socioeconomic backgrounds in a more favorable