The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man: With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by James Weldon Johnson, Arna Bontemps

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man: With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

James Weldon Johnson, Arna Bontemps

211 pages • first pub 1912 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and double consciousness -- that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. Republished in 1927,...

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