An Analysis
”How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston does exemplifies what Dubois terms the “double consciousness” which is the experience of being “an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body.” (45). However, she exemplifies Dubois’ words only to a limited extent: Hurston’s experiences of being an African American in white, racist society are much more complex than Dubois’s basic and simple dichotomy. Until she was thirteen, Hurston does not exist at all in anything resembling a state of “double consciousness” at all. By contrast, since she ...
