The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson · Audiobook preview

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Authored by James Weldon Johnson
Narrated by Alan Bomar Jones

0:00 Intro
0:03 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
0:24 PREFACE
2:30 CHAPTER I
26:19 CHAPTER II
32:39 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. The first fictional memoir ever written by a black, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double standard of racial identity imposed on black Americans. Narrated by a mulatto man whose light skin allows him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a pilgrimage through America's color lines at the turn of the century-from a black college in Jacksonville to an elite New York nightclub, from the rural South to the white suburbs of the Northeast. This is a powerful, unsentimental examination of race in America, a hymn to the anguish of forging an identity in a nation obsessed with color.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. James is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his book The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

Alan Bomar Jones is an international stage actor who has appeared in over sixty professional theatrical shows. His offstage credits include two made-for-TV movies, several independent films, and various local commercials, as well as audiobooks.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: December 20, 2010
ISBN: 9781452670614
Duration: 5 hr, 4 min
Genres: Fiction / Classics, Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies