One or the Other One of the many definitions that race has is: any contest or competition, especially to achieve superiority. Under a different context race is the way of classifying people based on their genetics; although they are different contexts in the real world both collide under the same context. Since, some people have the mentally that one race is superior to the other, even though no pure race exists. Zora Neale Hurston understands race as different color bags some of which have a priority in comparison to the other color bags. Her idea of race is similar to how I understand and have learned to see race because various individuals are discriminated against the color of their skin. Its like the color of skin speaks for the individual.