Question

What central idea does Hurston emphasize with the phase "became colored" in paragraph 2?

A. Race is not the foundation of her identity.
B. Her skin color changed when she turned thirteen.
C. Social context influences how she feels about her racial identity.
D. She did not always feel discriminated against because of her color.

Answer 1

C. Social context influences how she feels about her racial identity.

Step-by-step explanation:

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except that I am the only colored person in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little colored people town of Eatonville, Florida.