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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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African americans, fiction, Fiction, general, African American men, Fiction, African Americans, Blacks, Racially mixed people, Afro-American men, Classic Literature, Mulattoes, Dans la litte rature, Biographies, Noirs ame ricains, Fiction, historical, general, Passing (Identity), Race relations, Human skin color, Fiction, biographical, English fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Racism and the arts, American literature, African American authors, Social conditions, Racism, History, Race identity, Ethnic relations, Biographies & autobiographies, General, Ps3519.o2625 a95 1995Places
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Feb 22, 2016, Digireads.com
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James Weldon Johnson: the autobiography of an ex-colored man
2010, Createspace
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1452826617 9781452826615
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
July 18, 2007, NuVision Publications
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1595478671 9781595478672
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The autobiography of an ex-colored man
1995, Dover Publications, Inc.
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048628512X 9780486285122
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The autobiography of an ex-coloured man
1989, Vintage Books
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0679727531 9780679727538
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