First 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. Narrated 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 colour.
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