The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson, Arna Bontemps

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson, Arna Bontemps

184 pages hardcover 1912

70 editions

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First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards--and double consciousness--experienced by Black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the heig...

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