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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Paperback - English

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man explores the intricacies of racial identity through the eventful life of its mixed-race narrator. James Weldon Johnson tells his story where his mulatto mother, aided by monthly checks from his white father, is able to provide a secure and cultured environment. Learning of his black heritage by accident he experiences the first of several identity shifts that eventually finds him opting for membership in white society. Johnson's theme of moral cowardice sets his tragic story of color lines at the turn of the century--from a black college in Jacksonville to an elite New York nightclub, the rural South to the white suburbs of the Northeast. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man is a powerful, unsentimental examination of race in America. "This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day."

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ISBN
1612030386
EAN
9781612030388
Publisher
Publication Date
05 Jan 2011
Pages
122
Weight (kg)
0.17
Dimensions (cm)
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7
Lexile Level
1100
About Author
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871 1938) was a songwriter, poet, novelist, journalist, critic, autobiographer, lawyer, and public servant. With his brother John Rosamond, he wrote Lift Every Voice and Sing, which became the African American national anthem. He was United States consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive director of the NAACP, and a professor of creative literature at Fisk University. His many books include "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man".
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