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"How it Feels to be Colored me" (Original Title: "How it Feels to be Colored me"). Zora Neale Hurston was a folklorist, anthropologist, and author. This essay was published in 1928. In this essay Hurston's concept of the color modelled on the examples from her personal life as a colored woman.

Early 1900's in Harlem Renaissance Hurston had developed a relationship with a lady named Mrs. R. Osgood Mason, an elderly white patron of the arts. During this relationship, Hurston experienced some difficult times with they idea of all the black artists of the Harlem Renaissance had to face - the fact that the well off white-people were the sponsors of, and often expected to be the chief audience for, their work. Hurston was not really popular when it came to the male leaders in the Harlem community. Hurston had disagreed with Langston Hughes when he stated the idea that a black writer's chief concern should be how black's are seen to the white writer.