Theme Of Racial Pride In How It Feels To Be Colored Me

All citizens of the United States, no matter what race they are, have seen the racial discrimination in past U.S. history. Racial pride was a common idea that many African-American spokesmen and women had during the period of segregation. ¨Primer for Blacks “ by Gwendolyn Brooks and “How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston are two examples of literature that portray racial pride. Brooks gives insight about the meaning of black pride in poetry . Hurston talk about talks about her early life going to a boarding school being one of the few girls of color. “Primer for Blacks” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “How it Feels to be Colored Me”¨by Zora Neale Hurston both examine racial pride to suggest the need for equality to people of color. To start off, in the poem “Primer for Blacks” by Gwendolyn Brooks, she uses the devices of imagery, analogy and repetition to convey the theme of racial injustice. In the poem, figurative language is used in …show more content…
She examines racial pride through literary devices to suggest the need for equality to people of color. Hurston uses imagery by describing her role has a women of color during the time period. Hurston states,” I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong. 16 Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.” ( Hurston 4). Here, Huston saying she how she fits in with a group of great souls by using vivid words which. This appeals to the effect of racial pride to the reader. Later Hurston, as will, uses an analogy to show the theme. Hurston adds an analogy by comparing the idea of races to different color bags She