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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.
£5.49 – £10.99
| Author |
James Weldon Johnson |
|---|---|
| Imprint |
Read & Co. Classics |
| Categories |
African American Fiction Biographical Cultural Heritage Fiction |
| ISBN | 9781528718004, 9781528791137 |
| Formats Available | |
| Pages | 144 |
| Publication Date | 31 July 2020 |
| Dimensions | 5.5 × 8.5 in |
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.
