The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
2013 Reprint of 1912 Edition. Full facsimile of the original text, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional telling of the story of a young biracial man, referred to only as the Ex-Colored Man, living in post Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Ex-Colored Man was forced to choose between embracing his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African-American musical genre ragtime, or by passing and living obscurely as a mediocre middle-class white man. Though the title suggests otherwise, the book is not an autobiography but a novel. However, the book is based on the lives of people Johnson knew and from events in his own life. Johnson’s text is an example of a roman a clef.
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