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    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Narrated by Ako Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    'I was not white enough to be white, nor black enough to be black.'First published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man became one of James Weldon Johnson's most famous works, and remains a testament to the lives and experiences of both Johnson and his peers.Although primarily a work of fiction, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man offers many parallels with the life of ... Read more

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    Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Narrated by David Dear ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    In the years after the Civil War, there was an unfortunate amount of importance placed on racial identity. The focus on the races of one’s parents remained a mainstay of culture due to systemic prejudice and racism, and was a way of continuing to enact violence against Black people. For many mixed-race people, it felt safer to try and shift into white society.It is in this environment that The ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    "I buried my past... but at what cost to my soul?" Our narrator is a man of dual heritage—gifted, light-skinned, and acutely observant. Born into a world defined by the "color line," he possesses the unique and dangerous ability to move between the Black and White worlds. From the smoking rooms of high-society New York to the gambling dens of the South, and from the birth of Ragtime to the ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    What would you sacrifice if the world forced you to choose between safety and your true identity? In The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, James Weldon Johnson presents a brilliant and deeply moving exploration of race, identity, and the search for belonging in America. Told through the eyes of an unnamed narrator born to mixed parentage, the novel follows his extraordinary journey from ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    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

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    A groundbreaking American classic that explores identity, ambition, and the search for belonging with remarkable honesty and literary brilliance. Discover "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" by James Weldon Johnson, a landmark novel of American literature that examines race, identity, and the complexities of social life in the early twentieth century. Blending powerful storytelling with ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    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

    A Powerful Novel of Identity and Race

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Thought-provoking and emotionally resonant, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man explores race, identity, and social belonging in early twentieth-century America. Written with honesty and subtlety, the novel follows a gifted narrator navigating a society shaped by prejudice and opportunity. Praised for its insight and cultural significance, the book remains a landmark in African American ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    A Powerful Novel of Identity, Choice, and Passing

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    A life shaped by race, ambition, and silence.Blending fiction and autobiography, this novel explores identity and social pressure in early twentieth-century America. Quietly devastating, it examines the cost of denial and the search for belonging.A landmark work in American and African American literature.Read a story that still challenges conscience.Why This Edition?Complete unabridged novelClean ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in AmericaMasked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this "autobiography" purports to be a candid account of its narrator's private views and feelings as well as an acknowledgement of the central secret of his life: that though he ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    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 (Warbler Classics)

    by James Weldon Johnson, Ulrich Baer ...
    Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Adams, James Weldon Johnson relates the emotionally gripping tale of a mixed-race piano prodigy who can pass for white in turn-of-the-century America. Forced into impossible choices created by an unjust society, the narrator describes his experiences as he ... Read more

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