The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: A novel by James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: A novel

James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: A novel

James Weldon Johnson

192 pages first pub 1912 (editions)

nonfiction classics challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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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 gent...

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