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"The Autobiography of an ex-colored man"

To understand the deep-rooted racial problem of the United States of America, one has to go an extra mile by researching the phenomena objectively. ... “The Autobiography of An Ex-colored Man” written by James Weldon Johnson, tops the list of collections on the political and economic cum sociological problems. ... Johnson published the autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, under a pen name in 1912. ... The autobiography of an Ex-colored Man is a fictional account in first person narrative form by the great craftsman of words, James Weldon Johnson. ... A millionaire friend suggests to ex-colored man that on all accounts you are a white man, then why you are bent upon to destroy your life amidst poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle of the black people of the Unites States.
"My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education and by tastes, a white man. ... " (Johnson, 1995)

Economic necessity and racial identity in the “The Autobiography of An Ex-colored Man” is an interesting account of underprivileged communities and is a must read. ... The white man, the words slightly altered, and published under the names of the arrangers, took several of these improvisations down.


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