Zora Neale Hurston The Conscience Of The Court Analysis

Race In Zora Neale Hurston 's, "The Conscience of the Court", it is clearly shown that Laura Lee Kimble has at least some awareness of the impact of class and gender in her life. But she does not recognize race and racism as factors that shape her environment and determine her individual identity. For Laura Lee Kimble it is people of color who live racially structured lives.

Race is described as body type, ancestry, cultural differences, biological subspecies, actual social stratification and the normative social stratification. Race according to Michael Masse is: "Body type differences primarily skin color, ancestry as in the U.S., membership in a racial group is defined by the continent in which one 's ancestors, prior to the era of European
Hurston 's "The Conscience of the Court" examines black women 's social position by showing how race and racism shape black women 's lives. This is pointed out in the story by Laura Lee Kimble, when she stands in front of the judge and says to him that she does not understand all big words that are being spoken to her. The short story points out race early in the beginning by describing what Laura Lee Kimble looks like and the race that she belongs to. "Though spare of fat, she was built strongly enough, all right. An odd Negro type. Gray-green eyes, large and striking, looking out of a chestnut-brown face" (Zora Neale Hurston, 771). Hurston constructs Laura Lee Kimble