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How It Feels To Be Colored Me Analysis

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Social groups are represented in particular ways throughout society in many forms portraying the gender, community, and culture of people. Zora Neale Hurston the author of “Sweat” and “How
It Feels to Be Colored Me” shows dialect to African Americans people. Zora Neale Hurston lived in Eatonville,Florida which had a small black community that shapes both her life and writing. The ethics of the African American stigma to other communities or individuals. Social groups represent in a particular way by the discourse through stereotyping in each community and culture within every country in the world.
Each social group can be stereotypical against each other with the use of their own language by their morals as shown in Zora Neale Hurston “ Sweat”. “ Oh …show more content…

Zora Neale Hurston “Sweat” written in the dialect of African Americans shows how
Delia commenting on Sykes actions showing that he isn’t following his own morals making him marginalized. The ethics of an African American person can determine their community and determine the actions on how society see them.
Social groups can affect both genders based on the norms of society shown in Zora Neale
Hurston “Sweat”. “Ah’m so tired of you Ah don’t know whut to do. Gawd! How Ah hates skinny women!”(Sweat). The quote from “Sweat” I can infer that an African American man expectations can be a stigma to society because of how Sykes marginalize Delia who's a woman.
Throughout “Sweat” Sykes is actions and language towards women can be coercion just because he’s a man which says that he has more power. In the 21 century society still has norms on gender but, African American norms on gender can be based on a male or female attitude and
Language.
People in society develop their own language on how other’s see them which can be seen through a lot of events and/or social networking. “For instance, when I sit in the drafty

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