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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    A Musician Light-Skinned Enough to Pass as White Has to Decide Which Race He Belongs To

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Born to a Black mother and a white father he barely knows, the narrator grows up not realizing he's seen as Black until a schoolteacher points it out in front of the class. What follows is a life spent moving between worlds — a gifted ragtime pianist in the clubs of New York, a witness to a lynching in the Deep South that changes everything, and eventually a man who chooses to disappear into ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    A groundbreaking American classic that explores identity, ambition, and the search for belonging with remarkable honesty and literary brilliance. Discover "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" by James Weldon Johnson, a landmark novel of American literature that examines race, identity, and the complexities of social life in the early twentieth century. Blending powerful storytelling with ... 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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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    He could choose how the world would see him—but at what cost to himself? Told as a deeply personal confession, this groundbreaking novel follows a gifted young man of mixed race as he navigates America's rigid color line. Faced with discrimination, opportunity, fear, and ambition, he ultimately makes a life-altering decision to "pass" as white—gaining security while sacrificing a vital part of his ... 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 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    What would you sacrifice if the world forced you to choose between safety and your true identity? In The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, James Weldon Johnson presents a brilliant and deeply moving exploration of race, identity, and the search for belonging in America. Told through the eyes of an unnamed narrator born to mixed parentage, the novel follows his extraordinary journey from ... Read more

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  • James Weldon Johnson – The Major Collection

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    The 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 ...
    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 ...
    James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. With his bi-racial heritage, the Ex-Colored Man is faced with the choice of embracing his black culture and its ragtime music, or passing as a white man and living a mediocre middle-class existence. While not actually an ... 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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  • Poetry

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    This collection contains the poems written by James Weldon Johnson between 1899 and 1927. During this period of Johnson's life, he worked as a Broadway songwriter with his brother John Rosamund in the early 1900s, served as a United States Consul in Venezuela from 1906 to 1908 and in Nicaragua from 1909 to 1913, and was appointed as the first executive secretary of the National Association for the ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    The protagonist of this fictional autobiography wrestles with race in America from the perspective of someone who learns that he is considered black but also that he can pass as white if he wants to. His personal ambitiousness and racial ambivalence makes him a sort of American Hamlet: undone by indecision. Will he be "a credit to his race" by advancing an African-American heritage he loves and ... Read more

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