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An edition of Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1900)

The autobiography of an ex-colored man

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"The Auto-biography of an Ex-colored Man," by James Weldon Johnson, is the tragic fictional story of an unnamed narrator who tells the story of his coming-of-age at the beginning of the 20th century. Light-skinned enough to pass for white but emotionally tied to his mother's heritage, he ends up a failure in his own eyes after he chooses to follow the easier path while witnessing a white mob set fire to a black man. First published in 1912, "The Auto-biography of an Ex-colored Man" explores the intricacies of racial identity through the eventful life of its mixed-race narrator. Throughout the book, James Weldon Johnson's protagonist is torn between the opportunities open to him as an apparently white person and his strong sense of black identity. Though he marries a white woman, he lives a life plagued with guilt regarding his abandonment of his heritage as an African-American. James Weldon Johnson's writing is so powerful and believable that many readers took the book for a true autobiography until Johnson acknowledged his authorship in 1914."--P. [4] of cover.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
158

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New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-[xx]).

Series
Twentieth century classics, Twentieth century classics (New York, N.Y.)
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3519.O2625 A95 1990, PS3519.O2625A95 1990

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiv, 158 p. ;
Number of pages
158

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2201261M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780140184020
ISBN 10
0140131469
LCCN
89022919
OCLC/WorldCat
20295887
Library Thing
37415
Goodreads
4751480

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