The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519797230)

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. With his bi-racial heritage, the Ex-Colored Man is faced with the choice of embracing his black culture and its ragtime music, or passing as a white man and living a mediocre middle-class existence. While not actually an autobiography, Johnson based the book on his own life and the lives of people he knew.

Author: James Weldon Johnson
ISBN-10: 1519797230
ISBN-13: 9781519797230
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2015
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d