The autobiography of an ex-colored man
233 pages•about 4 h 45 min to read•Public domain
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About this book
Presented as the life account of a man of mixed ancestry, James Weldon Johnson’s novel follows his choices about racial identity and passing in the United States. Its first-person voice considers the cost of living under a society that assigns racial meaning to a person before he can define himself. As a boy, the narrator meets a father he can barely bring himself to call by name, then hurries away to keep a piano practice commitment. At sea, a conversation with a Black physician educated at Howard shifts from race relations to the narrator’s own plans.
