The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Johnson James WeldonPaperback
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Johnson James WeldonPaperback Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in AmericaMasked in the…
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Johnson James WeldonPaperback
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. Written by the first black executive secretary of the NAACP, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, in its depiction of turn-of-the-century New York, anticipates the social realism of the Harlem Renaissance writers. 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 lives as a white man, he is, by heritage and experience, an African-American.
In its unprecedented analysis of the social causes of a black man's denial of the best within himself, it is perhaps James Weldon Johnson's greatest service to his race.For more