The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- James Weldon Johnson

<b>The groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America, with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</b> <p/>First published anonymously in 1912, this novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard--and double consciousness--that ruled the lives of Black people in America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, <i>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</i> emerged as a groundbreaking document of African-American culture and an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. <p/> Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of Black society at the turn of the century--from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime. <i>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</i> is a complex and moving examination of the question of race and an unsparing look at what it meant to forge an identity as a man in a culture that recognized nothing but color. VINTAGE CLASSICS.<br><br><b>Author:</b> James Weldon Johnson<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 02/21/2023<br><b>Pages:</b> 192<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.35lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780593469606