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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    "I became aware that I was different—that I was what is called a colored man." James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a bold, pioneering work of American literature—a deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration of race, identity, and belonging in early 20th-century America. Originally published anonymously in 1912, this semi-autobiographical novel tells the story ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    A fictional tale set in America at the turn of the 20th century, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' tells the story of a mixed-race man whose lighter skin allows him to pass for a white man when the need arises.Charting his journey across the racial divides, it describes his journey from a black college kid in Jacksonville to a successful man living in the white suburbs of the Northeast.This ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional telling of the story of a young biracial man, referred to only as the “Ex-Colored Man", living in post Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Ex-Colored Man was forced to choose between embracing his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    What would you risk to belong? First published anonymously, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a bold and deeply moving novel by James Weldon Johnson that explores identity, race, and the price of ambition in America. Through the journey of a light-skinned African American man who chooses to "pass" as white, Johnson delivers a powerful reflection on society, opportunity, love, music, and ... Read more

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  • James Weldon Johnson: The Best Works

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    The Best Works of James Weldon JohnsonFifty Years And Other PoemsSelf Determining HaitiThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored ManThe Book Of American Negro Poetry ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    As the son of an African-American mother and a white Southern aristocrat father, the story of the Ex-Colored Man explores the challenges, successes, and insecurities that still linger in post-Reconstruction era America. As the Ex-Colored Man struggles between accepting his black heritage and passion for ragtime, and the desire to live a peaceful life, he ultimately decides to continue "passing" as ... Read more

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  • The Book of American Negro Poetry

    Chosen and Edited with an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    A collection of poetry from writers such as Paul Laurence Dunbar; James Edwin Campbell; James D. Corrothers; Daniel Webster Davis; William H.A. Moore; W.E. Burghardt Du Bois; George Marion McClellan; William Stanley Braithwaite; George Reginald Margetson, and many more. ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Free Audiobook) (A to Z Classics)

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songwriter, and critic. But it was as a poet and novelist that he achieved lasting fame. Among his most famous works, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man in many ways parallels Johnson's own remarkable life. First published in 1912, the novel relates, ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    In this classic novel from the Harlem Renaissance, a biracial musician living in the Jim Crow era chooses to pass as white and deals with the consequences.First published in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man is the story of an unnamed, light-skinned, biracial narrator born in a small Georgia town during the years following the Civil War. He knows nothing about race—until he and his ... Read more

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  • God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American spiritual oratory. African-American scholars have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. The work went on to find acclaim in many circles, proving "enormously popular among both the ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Series series Signature Editions
    James Weldon Johnson's trailblazing novel on passing and racial ambiguity, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.A coming-of-age tale about a young biracial man whose light skin allows him to "pass' for white at the turn of 20th century America. From a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, the unnamed narrator describes his remarkable ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in AmericaMasked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this "autobiography" purports to be a candid account of its narrator's private views and feelings as well as an acknowledgement of the central secret of his life: that though he ... Read more

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