01701cam a22003253u 4500 11012 UtSlPG 20260610133249.0 m cr n 260607r2004||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2004 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_an_Ex-Colored_Man Release date is 2004-02-01 Produced by Suzanne Shell, Bradley Norton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson is a novel published in 1912. It follows a biracial man navigating post-Reconstruction America who can pass as either Black or white. After witnessing a lynching and experiencing racial violence, he makes a fateful choice about his identity and future. The narrator abandons his dream of celebrating Black culture through ragtime music, choosing safety and advancement over authenticity. This groundbreaking work explores race, class, and the cost of denying one's heritage. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified African American men -- Fiction Racially mixed people -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11012 52459 52459