{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man","title":"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America that is still remarkably relevant more than a century later.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards--and double consciousness--experienced by Black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man became a pioneering document of African-American culture and an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNarrated by a man whose light skin enables him to \"pass\" for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of Black society at the turn of the century--from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a complex and moving examination of the question of race and an unsparing look at what it meant to forge an identity as a man in a culture that recognized nothing but color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 2022\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Everymans Library\u003cbr\u003ePages: 143\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0593535561\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780593535561\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Weldon Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52385326039306,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780593535561_64575ef7-bdca-4b0c-b978-4e15ae07a58a.jpg?v=1768221882","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}