{"product_id":"autobiography-of-an-ex-coloured-man","title":"Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAutobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJames Weldon Johnson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0809000326\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHill and Wang\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1991\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e212\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first fictional memoir ever written by a black, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man\u003c\/i\u003e influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double standard of racial identity imposed on black Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Narrated by a mulatto man whose light skin allows him to \"pass\" for white, the novel describes a pilgrimage through America's color lines at the turn of the century--from a black college in Jacksonville to an elite New York nightclub, from the rural South to the white suburbs of the Northeast. This is a powerful, unsentimental examination of race in America, a hymn to the anguish of forging an identity in a nation obsessed with color. And, as Arna Bontemps pointed out decades ago, \"the problems of the artist [as presented here] seem as contemporary as if the book had been written this year.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Hill and Wang","offers":[{"title":"Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man | James Weldon Johnson | Paperback | 0809000326 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1697131","offer_id":48753948262552,"sku":"1697131","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61ps2n7ekRL.jpg?v=1774070164","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/autobiography-of-an-ex-coloured-man","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}