The  autobiography of an ex-colored man
By: James Weldon Johnson.
Series: Dover thrift editions
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: African American men -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: First published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex- Colored Man has electrified readers ever since with its stark portrayal of the color line in America and its daring modernist style.

Johnson's theme of moral cowardice sets his tragic story of a mulatto in the United States above other sentimental narratives. The unnamed narrator, the offspring of a black mother and white father, tells of his coming-of-age at the beginning of the 20th century. Light-skinned enough to pass for white but emotionally tied to his mother's heritage, he ends up a failure in his own eyes after he chooses to follow the easier path while witnessing a white mob set fire to a black man. -- From Library Journal review by Sandy Glover, West Linn P.L., Oregon.