The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Contributor(s): Johnson, James Weldon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1528718003 ISBN-13: 9781528718004 Publisher: Read & Co. Classics OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1100 |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.43 lbs) 144 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American civil rights activist and writer. He led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was the first African-American professor at New York University. As a writer, Johnson was well-known in the Harlem Renaissance for his novels and poems which dealt primarily with black culture. In "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man", Johnson offers a fictional account of a biracial man living in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who attempts to pass as a white man to ensure his safety and future prospects. Read & Co. Classics is republishing this classic novel now in a new addition complete with the poem "At the Closed Gate of Justice" by James D. Corrothers. |