How It Feels to Be
Colored Me 11
January 2013
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Paints jazz in a very savage manner (tone)
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Renaissance artists trying to get away from
animalistic view
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Reinforcing racism
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Hurston reminds us of Janie
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Recognition of colored self
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Seeing a picture/hearing yourself
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Finding identity through voice (power and
silence)
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Identity by hair
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Racial genes: noticing it because it’s different
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Identifies her as a woman and a biracial
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Thought she was white, until she finds out she’s
not
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People in Eatonville classify her as not black
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What does she identify as? Does she have a
choice?
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“I have no race, I am me”
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Labels lose identity OR strengthen
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In the minority? Fitting in one place or
another?
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Gender/biological sex is a continuum
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Think of a time you were in a minority
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Did you sensor yourself? What would you say?
What would you keep to yourself? Edit outer behavior?
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Society cannot sensor your thoughts
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Me that is colorless (label)
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Me that is religion-less (label)
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“I am me.” (no label)
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Don’t need to explain or label
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Title
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It’s not about being able to label
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The purpose is to recognize labels and that they
do not necessarily make anyone similar or different on the inside
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We exist in an outer superficial world, but we
cannot asses the mind and the thoughts of people based on labels that society
puts upon them
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Takes a deep conversation to understand
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Removes “us” from us
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Willingness to wrestle with inner thoughts and
opinions
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