James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

James Weldon Johnson's landmark novel is an emotionally gripping and poignant look into race relations. The protagonist, a half-white half-black man of very light complexion, known only as an ex-colored man, makes a choice between his heritage and the art that he loves and the ability to escape the inherent racism that he faces by passing as a white. Because of his knowledge of both cultures he is able to give us startling revelations into both cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781633842359
• Artikelnr.: 41269198

Autorenporträt

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American writer, diplomat, musician, public intellectual, and civil rights leader. The first African American executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he was known for his poetry, novels, anthologies, and editorial writings. From 1906 to 1913 he served as President Theodore Roosevelt's U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. In 1931 he was appointed the Adam K. Spence Professor of Creative Literature at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and in 1934 he became New York University's first African American professor.