Critical essays on James Weldon Johnson /
Price, Kenneth M.
Oliver, Lawrence J.,1949-
New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contemporary evaluations.  "An ex-colored man" [review of The autobiography of an ex-colored man] / Anonymous [New York Times] -- [Review of The autobiography of an ex-colored man] / [Jessie Fauset] -- American character in American fiction ; Introduction [to Fifty years and other poems] / Brander Matthews -- Introduction [to The autobiography of an ex-colored man] / Carl Van Vechten -- The autobiography of an ex-colored man.  A forgotten prototype : "The autobiography of an ex-colored man" and "Invisible man" / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Lost in a quest : James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Robert B. Stepto -- Irony and symbolic action in James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. -- Privilege and evasion in The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Valerie Smith -- Irony and subversion in James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Roxanna Pisiak -- Passing as autobiography : James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Donald C. Goellnicht --
General assessments.  Black racial spirit : an analysis of James Weldon Johnson's critical perspective / Richard A. Carroll -- "My inner life is mine" [James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the NAACP] / Eugene levy -- Feminity and the Harlem experience : a note on James Weldon Johnson / Susan J. Koprince -- The composition of James Weldon Johnson's "Fifty years" / Robert E. Fleming -- H.L. Mencken and James Weldon Johnson : two men who helped shape a Renaissance / Charles Scruggs -- The two worlds of James Weldon Johnson / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. -- "Jim Crowed" in their own countries : James Weldon Johnson's New York Age essays on colonialism during the Wilson years / Lawrence J. Oliver -- James Weldon Johnson's Along this way : text and subtext / Robert E. Fleming -- Unmaking blackness : the ex-colored men of Charles W. Chesnutt and James Weldon Johnson / SallyAnn H. Ferguson.
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.