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  • The Book Of American Negro Poetry

    The book of American Negro poetry presents a curated collection of poems designed to highlight artistic range, cultural voice, and literary skill across a broad group of contributors. The volume functions as both preservation and assertion, gathering varied poetic styles to demonstrate depth of expression, technical control, and emotional force. Introductory material frames the selection with ... Read more

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  • Poetry

    This collection contains the poems written by James Weldon Johnson between 1899 and 1927. During this period of Johnson's life, he worked as a Broadway songwriter with his brother John Rosamund in the early 1900s, served as a United States Consul in Venezuela from 1906 to 1908 and in Nicaragua from 1909 to 1913, and was appointed as the first executive secretary of the National Association for the ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    The protagonist of this fictional autobiography wrestles with race in America from the perspective of someone who learns that he is considered black but also that he can pass as white if he wants to. His personal ambitiousness and racial ambivalence makes him a sort of American Hamlet: undone by indecision. Will he be "a credit to his race" by advancing an African-American heritage he loves and ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

    A thoughtful and deeply moving novel about race, identity, and belonging in America. The story follows a talented man of mixed racial heritage as he struggles to navigate a society shaped by prejudice and social division. Through music, ambition, and personal reflection, he searches for acceptance, purpose, and identity. Emotionally powerful and socially important, the novel explores themes of ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography Of An Ex Colored Man

    The protagonist of this fictional autobiography wrestles with race in America from the perspective of someone who learns that he is considered black but also that he can pass as white if he wants to. His personal ambitiousness and racial ambivalence makes him a sort of American Hamlet: undone by indecision. Will he be "a credit to his race" by advancing an African-American heritage he loves and ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man

    In this classic novel from the Harlem Renaissance, a biracial musician living in the Jim Crow era chooses to pass as white and deals with the consequences.First published in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man is the story of an unnamed, light-skinned, biracial narrator born in a small Georgia town during the years following the Civil War. He knows nothing about race—until he and his ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    He could choose how the world would see him—but at what cost to himself? Told as a deeply personal confession, this groundbreaking novel follows a gifted young man of mixed race as he navigates America's rigid color line. Faced with discrimination, opportunity, fear, and ambition, he ultimately makes a life-altering decision to "pass" as white—gaining security while sacrificing a vital part of his ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    As the son of an African-American mother and a white Southern aristocrat father, the story of the Ex-Colored Man explores the challenges, successes, and insecurities that still linger in post-Reconstruction era America. As the Ex-Colored Man struggles between accepting his black heritage and passion for ragtime, and the desire to live a peaceful life, he ultimately decides to continue "passing" as ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    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 ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    A hidden identity. A divided world. A search for belonging. In The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, James Weldon Johnson presents a deeply thought-provoking narrative exploring race, identity, and society in early 20th-century America. The unnamed narrator, born to a mixed-race background, navigates a complex world where racial identity shapes opportunity, perception, and destiny. As he moves ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

    This fascinating story follows the life of young biracial man in early twentieth century America.  He must confront not only the racism of the society around him, but also his own racial demons.  As the novel progresses, the young man finds himself faced with the dilemma of embracing his blackness and continuing on a brilliant career as a musician, or "passing" as a white man and earning a place ... Read more

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