Color Struck

by Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston published this play in the November 1926 issue of Fire!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists, a Harlem-based magazine. It is based in the United States during the Jim Crow era. It follows a Black woman named Emmaline whose internalized colorism permeates every aspect of her life.

Drawing by Bruce Nugent (1926) for Fire!! magazine.